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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 has discussed ethical issues surrounding ML, which include sanitizing data and ensuring that raw data remains secure. Many developers view this process as unnecessarily complicated and therefore avoid it at all costs. However, addressing ethical issues in data management also yields significant benefits to everyone involved in working with the data and associated ML models. The goal is to ensure that any analysis you make is both fair and secure.

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of the book. By now you’ve been introduced to a lot more than just security issues, and have addressed a wide range of data management and model creation issues that ultimately affect the results you receive from any data analysis. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether you’re working with text, graphics, sounds, or other data types; the result you obtain reflects the usefulness of the process you use to obtain it.