Explainable Artificial Intelligence Applications in Cyber Security and a Systematic Literature Mapping
Manish Vishwanath · 2023
This survey presents a comprehensive review of current literature on ExplainableArtificial Intelligence (XAI) methods for cyber security applications. Due to the rapid developmentof Internet connected systems and Artificial Intelligence in recent years, Artificial Intelligenceincluding Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) has been widely utilized in the fieldsof cyber security including intrusion detection, malware detection, and spam filtering. However,although Artificial Intelligence-based approaches for the detection and defense of cyber-attacksand threats are more advanced and efficient compared to the conventional signature-based andrule-based cyber security strategies, most ML-based techniques and DL-based techniques aredeployed in the ‘‘black-box’’ manner, meaning that security experts and customers are unable toexplain how such procedures reach particular conclusions.