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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

Detecting and Analyzing Anomalies

The short definition of an anomaly is something that you don’t expect—something strange, out of the ordinary, or simply a deviation from the norm. You don’t expect to see values outside a specific numeric range when reviewing data—these values often called outliers because they lie outside the expected range. However, anomalies occur in all sorts of ways, many of which don’t fall into the category of outliers. For example, the data may simply not meet formatting requirements, or it may appear inconsistently, as with state names that are correct but presented in different ways.

Some people actually enjoy seeking anomalies, finding them amusing or at least interesting. The point is anomalies occur all the time, and they may appear harmless, but they have the potential to affect your business in various ways. The point of this chapter is to help you discover what anomalies are with regard to ML, how to determine what...