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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 autoencoders

An autoencoder encodes data and compresses it, then decodes data and decompresses it, which doesn’t seem like a very helpful thing to do. However, it’s what happens during the encoding and decoding process that makes autoencoders useful. For example, during this process, the autoencoder can remove noise from a picture, sound, or video, thus cleaning it up. Autoencoders are simpler than GANs and they’re commonly used today for the following important tasks (in order of relevance):

  • Data de-noising
  • Data dimensionality reduction
  • Teaching how more complex techniques work
  • Detail context matching (where the autoencoder receives a small high-resolution piece of an image as input and is able to find it in a lower-resolution target image)
  • Toy tasks, such as jigsaw puzzle solving
  • Simple image generation

The third use means that anyone taking a class on more advanced machine learning techniques will likely encounter...