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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

By : Emmanuel Tsukerman
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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

By: Emmanuel Tsukerman

Overview of this book

Organizations today face a major threat in terms of cybersecurity, from malicious URLs to credential reuse, and having robust security systems can make all the difference. With this book, you'll learn how to use Python libraries such as TensorFlow and scikit-learn to implement the latest artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and handle challenges faced by cybersecurity researchers. You'll begin by exploring various machine learning (ML) techniques and tips for setting up a secure lab environment. Next, you'll implement key ML algorithms such as clustering, gradient boosting, random forest, and XGBoost. The book will guide you through constructing classifiers and features for malware, which you'll train and test on real samples. As you progress, you'll build self-learning, reliant systems to handle cybersecurity tasks such as identifying malicious URLs, spam email detection, intrusion detection, network protection, and tracking user and process behavior. Later, you'll apply generative adversarial networks (GANs) and autoencoders to advanced security tasks. Finally, you'll delve into secure and private AI to protect the privacy rights of consumers using your ML models. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to tackle real-world problems faced in the cybersecurity domain using a recipe-based approach.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Measuring the similarity between two files

Now, we are going to see how to apply ssdeep to measure the similarity between two binary files. The applications of this concept are many, but one in particular is using the similarity measure as a distance in clustering.

Getting ready

Preparation for this recipe consists of installing the ssdeep package in pip. The installation is a little tricky and does not always work on Windows. Instructions can be found at https://python-ssdeep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html.

If you only have a Windows machine and it does not work, then one possible solution is to run ssdeep on an Ubuntu VM by installing pip with this command:

pip install ssdeep

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