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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

By : Emmanuel Tsukerman
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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

By: Emmanuel Tsukerman

Overview of this book

Organizations today face a major threat in terms of cybersecurity, from malicious URLs to credential reuse, and having robust security systems can make all the difference. With this book, you'll learn how to use Python libraries such as TensorFlow and scikit-learn to implement the latest artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and handle challenges faced by cybersecurity researchers. You'll begin by exploring various machine learning (ML) techniques and tips for setting up a secure lab environment. Next, you'll implement key ML algorithms such as clustering, gradient boosting, random forest, and XGBoost. The book will guide you through constructing classifiers and features for malware, which you'll train and test on real samples. As you progress, you'll build self-learning, reliant systems to handle cybersecurity tasks such as identifying malicious URLs, spam email detection, intrusion detection, network protection, and tracking user and process behavior. Later, you'll apply generative adversarial networks (GANs) and autoencoders to advanced security tasks. Finally, you'll delve into secure and private AI to protect the privacy rights of consumers using your ML models. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to tackle real-world problems faced in the cybersecurity domain using a recipe-based approach.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Neural network-assisted fuzzing

Fuzzing is a software vulnerability detection method wherein a large number of random inputs are fed into a program in search of ones that will cause a crash, unwanted information leak, or other unintended behavior. In automated fuzzing, a program generates these inputs. Generally, automated fuzzers suffer from the shortcoming that they tend to get stuck trying redundant inputs. For this reason, AI-based fuzzers have recently been developed. In this recipe, we'll employ NEUZZ, a neural network-based fuzzer by She et al. (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05620), to find unknown vulnerabilities in software.

Getting ready

The following recipe requires an Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04 virtual...