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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

The important takeaway of this chapter is about being observant but not being paranoid. An anomaly is always unexpected, but it’s not always malicious or an indicator of impending doom. Some anomalies are actually welcome because they’re novelties that signify a trend toward something positive. The techniques that this chapter contains help you to differentiate between novelties and hacker attacks so that you don’t waste time chasing data that doesn’t matter in security matters.

A large part of this chapter focused on showing various techniques for discovering anomalies so that you can mitigate them. Even though the univariate approach may seem weak, it also has the benefit of being both fast and simple. You should first try the univariate approach before moving on to the more complex techniques used for multivariate analysis. When it comes to security, speed and simplicity do matter, and some advice you might find in data science texts for fully...