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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 ML fairness

Aside from ethical concerns and ensuring that your dataset lacks issues such as bias, it’s important that the dataset and its associated model deliver a fair result. It’s possible for a dataset to lack any sort of PII, features that could be linked to particular groups, and unnecessary features, and yet remain unfair. One of the most controversial and well-known examples of ML unfairness is the models used to assess the recidivism risk of individuals seeking release from prison. Fairness in Machine Learning – The Case of Juvenile Criminal Justice in Catalonia (https://blog.re-work.co/using-machine-learning-for-criminal-justice/) tells of only one incidence. The problem is extremely widespread, leading many to ask whether ML is capable of being fair in this scenario. The following sections explore ML fairness in more detail.

Determining what fairness means

The term fair isn’t actually well understood in most contexts and is...