DeepXplain: XAI-Guided Autonomous Defense against Multi-Stage APT Campaigns

Advanced Persistent Threats APTs are stealthy, multi-stage attacks that require adaptive and timely defense. While deep reinforcement learning DRL enables autonomous cyber defense, its decisions are often opaque and difficult to trust in operational environments. This paper presents DeepXplain, a...

DeepStage: Learning Autonomous Defense Policies against Multi-Stage APT Campaigns

This paper presents DeepStage, a deep reinforcement learning DRL framework for adaptive, stage-aware defense against Advanced Persistent Threats APTs. The enterprise environment is modeled as a partially observable Markov decision process POMDP, where host provenance and network telemetry are fus...

S-DAPT-2026: A Stage-Aware Synthetic Dataset for Advanced Persistent Threat Detection

The detection of advanced persistent threats APTs remains a crucial challenge due to their stealthy, multistage nature and the limited availability of realistic, labeled datasets for systematic evaluation. Synthetic dataset generation has emerged as a practical approach for modeling APT campaigns...