"New to Autonomous Security"
Efforts continue to be made to make cybersecurity more autonomous. According to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), cybersecurity is about being faster than adversaries and keeping up with the continuously changing threat landscape. Autonomous security systems can help these efforts by making decisions previously made by humans such as the vulnerability of code and the deployment of patches. A fully autonomous security system should be capable of automatically detecting new vulnerabilities, rewriting applications in a way that prevents their exploitation, measuring the business impact of protection measures, and more. This article continues to discuss the concept of autonomy in cybersecurity, the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge aimed at demonstrating autonomous application security, the components of a fully autonomous security system, the categories of AppSec technologies, and the goals of autonomous security.