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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

Summary

This chapter is about taking the hacker-eye view of security, which is extremely porous and profoundly easy to break. The idea is to help security professionals to remain informed that being comfortable and taking half-measures won’t keep a hacker at bay. Building the walls higher isn’t particularly effective either. Years of one-upmanship have demonstrated that building higher walls simply means that the hacker must devise a new strategy, which often comes even before the walls are built. Creating an effective defense requires that the security professional deal with the hacker from the perspective that the hacker thinks it’s possible to overcome any obstacle. This is where ML comes into play because using ML techniques makes it possible to look for hacker patterns that a security professional can exploit to enhance security without building a higher wall. It’s time that the hacker becomes more comfortable with an existing strategy and lowers their...