Memristors as Synapses in Artificial Neural Networks: Biomimicry Beyond Weight Change

Cyberthreat security is a rapidly evolving landscape, where the diversity and number of attacks is constantly changing, requiring new approaches to defense. In the past, it was sufficient to predict likely attack methods and to monitor potential vulnerabilities, however, today the attacks are too varied and change too quickly for the traditional defenses to be effective. We need structures that are capable of identifying probable attacks and responding without human intervention. Due to the increasing rate of new attack methodologies, these structures need to be able to identify and respond to attacks that have never been seen before. That is, we need structures which are capable of learning.

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