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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 business threats

Business software solutions have become more complex over the years and so have the security threats facing them. Many businesses run a hybrid setup today where part of the business software resides locally on a network (some of which forms a private cloud-based configuration) and the other part is hosted online as one of the “as a service” options, such as Platform as a Service (PaaS). Consequently, security often comes in layers for businesses.

Traditional security is a starting point for the local part of the infrastructure and service-level security is part of the cloud-based component. The Cloud Adoption Statistics for 2021 article at https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/cloud-adoption-statistics/ is enlightening because it shows that, even if you consider only the cloud component of an organization, 69 percent rely on a hybrid solution for their cloud presence, and that some organizations leverage up to 5 different hosting solutions...