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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

Sanitizing data correctly

The act of sanitizing data is to clean it up before using it so that it doesn’t contain things such as PII or unneeded features. In addition, sanitization provides benefits to ML models that shouldn’t be ignored.

The example in this section relies on a database that is typical of information obtained from a corporate customer database, combined with an opinion poll. The Importing and combining the datasets section of Chapter 9, Defending against Hackers, shows a similar process where you combine mobility data with COVID statistics. This data combination is a common scenario today where businesses ask people’s opinions about everything, but the combined form of the database is completely inappropriate as it performs an analysis of how customers feel about product characteristics. Here are the goals for this analysis (which are likely simplified from what you will encounter in the real world, but work fine here):

  • Improve sales...