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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

Mitigating dataset corruption

Dataset corruption is different from dataset modification because it usually infers some type of accidental modification that could be relatively easy to spot, such as values out of range or missing altogether. The results of the corruption could appear random or erratic. In many cases, assuming the corruption isn’t widespread, it’s possible to fix the dataset and restore it to use. However, some datasets are fragile (especially those developed from multiple incompatible sources), so you might have to recreate them from scratch. No matter the source or extent of the data corruption, a dataset that suffers from corruption does have these issues:

  • The data is inherently less reliable because you can’t ensure absolute parity with the original data.
  • Any model you create from the data may not precisely match the model created with the original data.
  • Hackers or disgruntled employees may purposely corrupt a dataset to keep...