Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies

Preface

The rise of AI is a new revolution in the making, transforming our lives. Alongside the phenomenal opportunities, new risks and threats are emerging, especially in the area of security, and new skills are demanded to safeguard AI systems. This is because some of these threats manipulate the very essence of how AI works to trick AI systems. We call this adversarial AI, and this book will walk you through techniques, examples, and countermeasures. We will explore them from both offensive and defensive perspectives; we will act as an attacker, staging attacks to demonstrate the threats and then discussing how to mitigate them.

Understanding adversarial AI and defending against it poses new challenges for cybersecurity professionals because ...