Mastering Machine Learning for Penetration Testing: Develop an extensive skill set to break self-learning systems using Python

Chiheb Chebbi

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eBook Jun 2018 276 pages 1st Edition

Chiheb Chebbi

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eBook Jun 2018 276 pages 1st Edition

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• Identify ambiguities and breach intelligent security systems
• Perform unique cyber attacks to breach robust systems
• Learn to leverage machine learning algorithms

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Cyber security is crucial for both businesses and individuals. As systems are getting smarter, we now see machine learning interrupting computer security. With the adoption of machine learning in upcoming security products, it’s important for pentesters and security researchers to understand how these systems work, and to breach them for testing purposes. This book begins with the basics of machine learning and the algorithms used to build robust systems. Once you’ve gained a fair understanding of how security products leverage machine learning, you'll dive into the core concepts of breaching such systems. Through practical use cases, you’ll see how to find loopholes and surpass a self-learning security system. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll focus on topics such as network intrusion detection and AV and IDS evasion. We’ll also cover the best practices when identifying ambiguities, and extensive techniques to breach an intelligent system. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with identifying loopholes in a self-learning security system and will be able to efficiently breach a machine learning system.

Who is this book for?

This book is for pen testers and security professionals who are interested in learning techniques to break an intelligent security system. Basic knowledge of Python is needed, but no prior knowledge of machine learning is necessary.

What you will learn

•Take an in-depth look at machine learning
•Get to know natural language processing (NLP)
•Understand malware feature engineering
•Build generative adversarial networks using Python libraries
•Work on threat hunting with machine learning and the ELK stack
•Explore the best practices for machine learning

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Houssem Dellai Jul 23, 2018

Before reqding a book, I search for the qualifications of the author. And clearly here he shows up his motivation and willing to share through international conferences and his second book !

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priyabrata mohanty Jan 13, 2019

Gives you a good guidance on where to start.

Alex Oct 31, 2018

For me, this was a good introduction to Machine Learning with regards to Pentesting. Some interesting concepts and just enough information to wet your appetite to look further into ML. Recommend it for anyone with an interest to get a good base to start at.

sipy Aug 14, 2018

While this book does an excellent job of describing many aspects of Machine Learning, it doesn't live up to its title of showing you how to apply M.L. techniques to Penetration Testing.**HOWEVER** If this book was retitled: "M.L. for Dummies", I would give it 5 stars!!! Note that I'm not mocking the author or potential reader - it really is an **excellent** introduction for newcomers to the M.L. field - exactly what the "...for Dummies" book series is intended to be!The vast majority of this book is spent describing concepts and algorithms for M.L., which I feel the author is very technically qualified to teach. His writing style is very approachable, and he is very, very adept at relating these complicated topics to newcomers in the M.L. field. In fact, I don't recall another source that can convey, in so few words, these deeply technical thoughts as easily as this book.The closest thing in this book describing M.L. "for Pentesting" is probably the 40 pages of chapters 8 and 9, which mostly name-drop various tools that can be used to investigate perturbing training data to influence an M.L. model's classification capabilities. No mention is made in this section on how to use these tools and techniques for *Penetration* *Testing* - only for perturbing training data, which the author doesn't describe how to utilize for an actual Pentest-type of attack!Chapter 10 may be the most undersold chapter in this book. It covers best practices for Feature Engineering - something that you *must* master in order to use M.L. The lucid descriptions in this chapter, alone, almost justified my purchase price!Again, I think this is a great book written by a very competent author who has a gift for conveying very detailed technical matter in an easy-to-grasp way. His writing style is very approachable, and this book is an easy read for the newcomer to M.L.In fact, if you are new to M.L., I recommend reading this book, first, to see if it is even something that you may want to partake of.But - again - this book is *not* a "Machine Learning for Pentesting" book. It doesn't come close to hitting this mark, in my opinion.

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