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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

Considering security issues in ML algorithms

Someone is going to break into your ML application, even if you keep it behind firewalls on a local network. The following sections will help you understand the security issues that lead to breaches when using adversarial ML techniques.

Considering the necessity for investment and change

Because of the time and resource investment in ML models, organizations are often less than thrilled about having to incorporate new research into the model. However, as with any other software, updates of ML models and the underlying libraries represent an organization’s investment in the constant war with hackers. In addition, an organization needs to remain aware of the latest threats and modify models to combat them. All these requirements may mean that your application never feels quite finished – you may just complete one update, only to have to start on another.

Defining attacker motivations

An organization can use any number...