Course description
This course will teach you some of the darker, less publicized attacks on machine learning. You will learn how to steal machine learning models (i.e., create high-fidelity copies of black-box machine learning models), how to poison ML models so that their performance is degraded, and how to perform backdoor attacks on ML. The lessons in this course will be solidified through an assignment on backdoor attacks on ML.

Syllabus
Backdoor Attacks on Machine Learning
File — 01:00:00
Backdoor Attacks on Machine Learning
Video — 00:00:57
Model-Stealing Attacks on Machine Learning
Video — 00:06:07
Machine Learning Poisoning
Video — 00:04:59
Backdoor Attacks on Machine Learning Assignment
Video — 00:02:22

Meet the author
Dr. Tsukerman graduated from Stanford University and UC Berkeley. In 2017, his machine-learning-based anti-ransomware product won Top 10 Ransomware Products by PC Magazine. In 2018, he designed a machine-learning-based malware detection system for Palo Alto Network’s WildFire service (over 30,000 customers).
In 2019, Dr. Tsukerman authored the Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook and launched the Infosec Skills Cybersecurity Data Science Learning Path.
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