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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 social threats

Social threats affect individuals the most. A social threat is something that entices the user to perform a risky behavior or compromises the individual in some way. Here are a few ideas to consider:

  • Social media: A user is enticed to do things such as discuss company policies or strategies in the interest of being social.
  • Ads: Someone presents an ad that discusses some new swanky product, but the ad ends up compromising the individual in some way, such as providing access to a social media account, a shopping site, or even your local network. ML makes it possible to create convincing ads based on actual buyer shopping habits.
  • Utilities: A special tool allows the individual to do something interesting, such as changing the color of their Facebook site. You find utilities all over the place because people naturally want to fiddle with whatever it is that they think requires an update or change. A utility can plant a Trojan on the individual...