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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 began by defining adversarial ML, which is always the result of some entity purposely attacking the software to elicit a specific result. Consequently, unlike other kinds of damage, the data may not have any damage at all, or the damage may be so subtle as to defy easy recognition. The first step in recognizing that there is a problem is to determine why an attack would take place – to get into the hacker’s mind and understand the underlying reason for the attack.

A second step in keeping hackers from attacking your software is to understand the security issues that face the ML system, which defies a one size fits all solution. A hospital doesn’t quite face the same security issues that a financial institution does (certainly they face different legal requirements). Consequently, analyzing the needs of your particular organization and then putting security measures in place that keep a hacker at bay is essential. One of the most potent ways...