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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

Defining current network threats

Network threats go well beyond the application level, and it’s unlikely that a single individual would provide support for every protective means that a network will require. For example, developers aren’t going to handle physical security – a security company will likely handle it. However, your ML application may interact with the physical security system by monitoring cameras and other sensors. If you think this is a little futuristic, companies such as Bosch (https://www.boschsecurity.com/xc/en/solutions/video-systems/video-analytics/) and Nelly’s Security (https://www.nellyssecurity.com/blog/articles/what-is-deep-learning-ai-and-why-is-it-important-for-video-surveillance) have products available today. An ML application can look for trends, such as an attacker who is casing a business before attempting to break in. The human monitoring the cameras may not see that the same person shows up on various nights, yet never...