Real-Time Threat Intelligence for AI Systems

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To achieve the goal of adding real-time threat intelligence to AI systems, you would typically want to integrate threat intelligence platforms and analytical tools that can work with your existing infrastructure. The nature of AI systems means that they can learn from incoming data, and a robust solution for real-time threat intelligence should be able to feed pertinent security threat data into the AI model for it to learn and adapt.

One way to implement such a system would be to leverage cloud services that provide threat intelligence and security insights. For example, in Microsoft Azure, you could use services provided by the `azure-native` Pulumi provider, such as `ThreatIntelligenceIndicator` and `EntityAnalytics` from Azure Sentinel (SecurityInsights), which allows the modeling and analysis of security threat data.

Below is a Pulumi program written in Python that demonstrates how to create Azure Security Insights resources for real-time threat intelligence. This program does not directly interact with AI systems but sets up the infrastructure that an AI system could leverage for real-time threat intelligence.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_azure_native as azure_native

# Set Azure resource group and workspace for Azure Security Insights
resource_group_name = 'security-insights-group'
workspace_name = 'security-insights-workspace'

resource_group = azure_native.resources.ResourceGroup('resourceGroup',
    resource_group_name=resource_group_name)

# Initialize Azure Sentinel Workspace
workspace = azure_native.operationalinsights.Workspace('workspace',
    resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
    workspace_name=workspace_name)

# Create a Threat Intelligence Indicator which represents threat intelligence data
# In a real-world scenario, you would inject actual threat indicators from a threat feed
threat_intelligence_indicator = azure_native.securityinsights.ThreatIntelligenceIndicator('threatIntelligenceIndicator',
    workspace_name=workspace.name,
    resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
    name='example-threat-indicator',
    threat_types=['malware'],
    confidence=80,
    source="Custom",
    pattern="[file:hashes.'SHA-256' = 'abc123...']")
    
# Create Entity Analytics to analyze and model data about entities relevant to security
entity_analytics = azure_native.securityinsights.EntityAnalytics('entityAnalytics',
    resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
    workspace_name=workspace.name,
    settings_name='default')

# Export the information that we've created, you could use these in other parts of your infrastructure
pulumi.export('resource_group_name', resource_group.name)
pulumi.export('workspace_name', workspace.name)
pulumi.export('threat_intelligence_indicator_id', threat_intelligence_indicator.id)
pulumi.export('entity_analytics_id', entity_analytics.id)
```

This program sets up Microsoft Azure resources that can collect threat intelligence and perform analytics. Here is a brief explanation:

1. A `ResourceGroup` is created to manage all the resources we'll be declaring. It acts as a logical container for them.
2. The `Workspace` is set up for use by Azure Sentinel, which is Microsoft Azure's security information and event management (SIEM) service.
3. A `ThreatIntelligenceIndicator` is established that would represent threat intelligence data such as information about malware, IP addresses, URLs, etc. Normally, you would get this information from a threat intelligence feed or services.
4. We create an `EntityAnalytics` component, which is used to analyze entity data. This could be used by your AI systems to model and assess threats based on data analytics.

Keep in mind that an AI system would need to have access to and potentially interpret these Azure resources and their data or feed off of processed events and alerts that result from these indicators and analytics processes. The AI's machine learning model would then be trained to recognize patterns and possibly predict or respond to threats in real-time as part of your overarching cybersecurity posture.

To fully integrate AI, you would need additional logic in your application layer to read from these services, transform the data if necessary, and input it into your AI models. This often involves software development beyond the scope of infrastructure code; it delves into the realm of data engineering and AI model training, which would require additional tooling and expertise.