Artificial Intelligence Within Agile Software Development: Projected Impacts to Cyber Offense-Defense Balance.

The cyber offense-defense balance theory evaluates the relative effort offense and defense forces need to prevail in conflict. Cyber conflict is a large domain, and many factors influence the offense-defense balance. Recent investments into Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Agile development can be used to make more accurate predictions using existing cyber offense-defense models. This paper predicts future shifts in the balance of cyber warfare caused by the current and projected capabilities of AI-augmented Agile software development pipelines. Initially, increased investments and capabilities are predicted to give an advantage to aggressing forces. Over time, however, technology advances and more standardized processes will likely create a more significant advantage for defensive capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]