Book Image

Machine Learning Security Principles

By : John Paul Mueller
Book Image

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

Considering fraud that occurs in the background

Niccolo Machiavelli, the person from whose name the term Machiavellian is derived, is one of those individuals who observed human nature with great patience and in great depth in many cases. Unlike the perception that many have of him being a scoundrel of the worst sort, he was a philosopher who saw human nature as it was at the time when it came to politics. Background fraud is often Machiavellian in nature. It has an “ends justifies the means” view of the world and can be utterly immoral in its approach to obtaining some goal through the use of deception. In other words, yelling that something isn’t fair is unlikely to garner any sort of response in this situation. The following sections define the kinds of background fraud and how to detect it.

Detecting fraud that occurs when you’re not looking

There are many different definitions for the difference between background, or long-term, fraud and real...