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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)

Social Mapper

Social Mapper is an OSINT tool that allows you to correlate the multitude of social media profiles of a target using facial recognition. It automatically searches popular social media sites for the target's name and pictures to effortlessly find the user's social media profiles and then outputs the results into a report that you can use to take your investigations further.

The largest benefit of Social Mapper is that by combining name search with image recognition, as opposed to just name search, it can eliminate false positives, saving the social engineer valuable time.

Social Mapper currently supports LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, VKontakte, Weibo, and Douban.

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