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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

Employing ML in security in the real world

The real world is ever-changing and quite messy. You may think that there is a straightforward simple solution to a problem, but it’s unlikely that the solution to any given security problem is either straightforward or simple. What you often end up with is a layering of solutions that match the requirements of your environment. Consequently, you might find that an ML application designed to detect threats is part of a solution, the flexible part that learns and makes a successful attack less likely. However, you likely need to rely on traditional security and service-based security as well. It’s also important to keep user training in mind and not neglect those small things.

The reality of ML is that it’s a tool like any other tool and not somehow a magic wand that will remove all of your security problems. If Chapter 3 shows you anything, it demonstrates that ML security exploits exist in great quantities and that...