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The risks from cyber threats are increasing. Cyber threats propagate primarily with deception. Threats from deception derive from insider and outsider attacks. These threats are countered by reactive and proactive cyber-defenses. Alarmingly, increasing proactive cyber defenses simulate conflicts from the Wild West of yesteryear. However, deception is inadequately addressed with traditional theories based on methodological individualism (MI). Worse, MI’s rational choice theory breaks down in the presence of social conflict. In contrast, interdependence theory addresses barriers, deception to penetrate the vulnerabilities of barriers and the conflict which ensues, topics where interdependence theory thrives. Interdependence includes the effects of the constructive or destructive interference that constitute every social interaction. Our research primarily addresses the application of interdependence theory to autonomous human-machine teams (A-HMTs), which entails artificial intelligence (AI) and AI’s sub-field of machine learning (ML). A-HMTs require defenses that protect a team from cyberthreats, adverse interference and other vulnerabilities while affording the opportunity for a team to become autonomous. In this chapter, we focus on an introduction that includes a review of traditional methodological individualism and rational choice theory. Our introduction is followed by a discussion of deception and its implications for reactive cyber defenses. We next cover proactive cyber defenses in a separate section. Then we review our research on interdependence theory and its application to A-HMTs. We conclude that while cyber-risks are increasing, so too is the teamwork that strengthens cyber-defenses. The future belongs to a theory of interdependence that improves cyber-defenses, teams and the science that generalizes to A-HMTs. |
