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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

By : Alessandro Parisi
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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

By: Alessandro Parisi

Overview of this book

Today's organizations spend billions of dollars globally on cybersecurity. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a great solution for building smarter and safer security systems that allow you to predict and detect suspicious network activity, such as phishing or unauthorized intrusions. This cybersecurity book presents and demonstrates popular and successful AI approaches and models that you can adapt to detect potential attacks and protect your corporate systems. You'll learn about the role of machine learning and neural networks, as well as deep learning in cybersecurity, and you'll also learn how you can infuse AI capabilities into building smart defensive mechanisms. As you advance, you'll be able to apply these strategies across a variety of applications, including spam filters, network intrusion detection, botnet detection, and secure authentication. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to develop intelligent systems that can detect unusual and suspicious patterns and attacks, thereby developing strong network security defenses using AI.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: AI Core Concepts and Tools of the Trade
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Section 2: Detecting Cybersecurity Threats with AI
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Section 3: Protecting Sensitive Information and Assets
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Section 4: Evaluating and Testing Your AI Arsenal

Summary

In this chapter, we have introduced the fundamental concepts of AI and ML in relation to the context of cybersecurity. We have presented some of the strategies adopted in the management of automated learning process, and the possible problems that data analysts face. The concepts and tools that we have learned in this chapter will be used and adapted in the following chapters, addressing the specific problems of cybersecurity.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to manage Jupyter interactive notebooks in more depth, which allows the reader to interactively execute the instructions given and display the results of the execution in real time.

During the course of the book, the concepts of AI and ML will be presented from time to time in the topics covered in the individual chapters, trying to provide a practical interpretation of the algorithms examined. For those interested...