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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 helped you understand both business and social threats to your ML application, what to look for, how to mitigate attacks when they occur, and how to keep them from happening in the first place. The goal is to provide a flexible setup that makes the hacker work so hard that going somewhere else becomes attractive. Never assume that the hacker can’t break your security. In fact, presenting any sort of challenge will keep a hacker interested until your security does break, so always assume that any security threat can gain access if wanted.

Layering is an essential part of any security solution. Using layers adds complexity, which is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it makes the hacker’s job harder by putting up barriers that change over time, as administrators learn and correct misconceptions about how security should appear. On the other hand, as anyone who does reliability studies will tell you, more parts mean more things to break, which...