The National Science Foundation-sponsored Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (Action) is a $20-million, five-year project that brings the continuous learning and reasoning of AI to the constant situational awareness and actions that are fundamental to cybersecurity. This project is one of seven newly funded National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes and is headed by UC Santa Barbara computer science professor and cybersecurity expert Giovanni Vigna. Purdue University’s principal investigator and Action Institute’s use-inspired research lead is Dongyan Xu, and five other Purdue faculty members are also part of the project.
