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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

Leveraging Machine Learning for Hacking

When it comes to any sort of enforcement or security concern, it often helps to take the adversary’s point of view. That’s what this chapter does, to an extent. You won’t see any actual exploit code (which would be unethical, this isn’t a junior guide to a hacker’s paradise after all), but you will encounter methods that hackers use to employ machine learning (ML) to do things such as bypass Captcha and harvest information. Discovering the techniques used can greatly aid in your own security efforts.

The chapter also reviews some of the methods used to mitigate ML attacks by hackers by taking the hacker’s eye-view of things. This approach differs from previous chapters in that you’re no longer looking at building a higher wall or considering the hacker’s behavior based on their needs and wants, but rather looking at the world of computing from the perspective of how the hacker. In some...