AUTOMATED CYBERSECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE: A REINFORCEMENT LEARNING APPROACH
MingJie Zhao, Rui Chen · AI and Data Science Journal · 2025
Cybersecurity incident response is critical for defending digital infrastructures from evolving cyber threats. Traditional manual systems and rule-based automation methods cannot efficiently cope with dynamic and sophisticated attacks. This paper explores the application of reinforcement learning (RL) to automate cybersecurity incident response. By modeling the response process as an RL problem, where an agent learns from interactions with the environment, the proposed system aims to enhance detection accuracy, minimize response times, and reduce false positives. Experimental results demonstrate the system's ability to mitigate threats effectively, showing that RL can significantly improve the efficiency and scalability of cybersecurity defenses. This approach leverages machine learning to automate decisions in real-time, adapting to evolving threats and optimizing incident response strategies. The integration of RL in incident response has the potential to dramatically reduce human error, improve system adaptability, and scale efficiently in complex, high-volume environments.