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Machine Learning Security Principles

By : John Paul Mueller
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Machine Learning Security Principles

By: John Paul Mueller

Overview of this book

Businesses are leveraging the power of AI to make undertakings that used to be complicated and pricy much easier, faster, and cheaper. The first part of this book will explore these processes in more depth, which will help you in understanding the role security plays in machine learning. As you progress to the second part, you’ll learn more about the environments where ML is commonly used and dive into the security threats that plague them using code, graphics, and real-world references. The next part of the book will guide you through the process of detecting hacker behaviors in the modern computing environment, where fraud takes many forms in ML, from gaining sales through fake reviews to destroying an adversary’s reputation. Once you’ve understood hacker goals and detection techniques, you’ll learn about the ramifications of deep fakes, followed by mitigation strategies. This book also takes you through best practices for embracing ethical data sourcing, which reduces the security risk associated with data. You’ll see how the simple act of removing personally identifiable information (PII) from a dataset lowers the risk of social engineering attacks. By the end of this machine learning book, you'll have an increased awareness of the various attacks and the techniques to secure your ML systems effectively.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Securing a Machine Learning System
5
Part 2 – Creating a Secure System Using ML
12
Part 3 – Protecting against ML-Driven Attacks
15
Part 4 – Performing ML Tasks in an Ethical Manner

Understanding the types of fraud

Fraud entails deception. The kind of deception depends on the fraud being perpetrated. For example, a compelling product message could result in identity theft, stolen credentials, or other resource gains for the perpetrator. Creating a condition in which one entity receives the blame for another entity’s actions is another form of fraud. When considering fraud, it pays to have a Machiavellian mindset because the deception can become quite complex. However, the majority of fraud is quite simple: someone is deceived into giving someone else a resource the other wants for no apparent return. It amounts to a kind of theft.

There are many types of fraud. Some are watched by professionals, while others aren’t, possibly because no one thinks to monitor them. With this in mind, here are a few common types of fraud that professionals do monitor:

  • Bank account takeover: The common way to perpetrate this fraud when using ML techniques...