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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

Classifying malware

Even though this chapter prepares you to disassemble and analyze malware, nothing replaces actual experience. The best option to start with is to disassemble and analyze benign software of the kind you eventually want to work with before you attempt to work with any actual malware. Otherwise, you may find yourself the target of whatever malware you’re studying at the time. The following sections provide you with some additional insights into classifying malware that may target your particular setup.

Obtaining malware samples and labels

There are a lot of malware sites online where you can download live malware. The problem with live malware is that it can suddenly turn on you if you’re not prepared. A good alternative is to download and study disabled malware first, which is what you find at https://github.com/sophos/SOREL-20M. This site also provides detailed instructions for working with the dataset with as much safety as working with malware...