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Machine Learning Security Principles

By : John Paul Mueller
Book Image

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 data anomalies

Anomaly (and its novelty counterpart) detection is a never-ending, constant requirement because anomalies happen all the time. However, with all this talk of detecting and removing anomalies, you need to consider something else. If you remove the novelties from the dataset (thinking that they are anomalies), then you may not see an important trend. Consequently, detection and research into possible novelties go hand in hand. Of course, the most important place to start is with the data itself, looking for values that don’t obviously belong. Figure 6.2 provides a list of common techniques to detect outliers (the table is definitely incomplete because there are many others):

Method

Type

Description

Cook’s distance

Model-specific

This estimates the variations in regression coefficients...