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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

Creating a deepfake computer setup

Creating a deepfake requires building serious models, using specialized software on systems that have more than a little computing horsepower. The system used for testing and in the screenshots for this chapter is more modest. It has an Intel i7 processor, 24 GB of RAM, and an NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super GPU. This system is used to ensure that the examples will run in a reasonable amount of time, with reasonable being defined as building a model in about half an hour or less. The example as a whole will require more time, likely in the hour range. The following sections will help you install a TensorFlow setup that you can use for autoencoder and GAN development without too many problems, and help you test your setup to ensure it actually works.

Installing TensorFlow on a desktop system

Desktop developers may already have TensorFlow installed, but if you’re not sure then you likely don’t. The technique for creating the advanced...