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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

You're reading from   Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to implement machine learning algorithms for building security systems using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789614671
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Emmanuel Tsukerman Emmanuel Tsukerman
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Machine Learning for Cybersecurity 2. Machine Learning-Based Malware Detection FREE CHAPTER 3. Advanced Malware Detection 4. Machine Learning for Social Engineering 5. Penetration Testing Using Machine Learning 6. Automatic Intrusion Detection 7. Securing and Attacking Data with Machine Learning 8. Secure and Private AI 9. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Selecting the best N-grams

The number of different N-grams grows exponentially in N. Even for a fixed tiny N, such as N=3, there are 256x256x256=16,777,216 possible N-grams. This means that the number of N-grams features is impracticably large. Consequently, we must select a smaller subset of N-grams that will be of most value to our classifiers. In this section, we show three different methods for selecting the topmost informative N-grams.

Getting ready

Preparation for this recipe consists of installing the scikit-learn and nltk packages in pip. The instructions are as follows:

pip install sklearn nltk

In addition, benign and malicious files have been provided for you in the PE Samples Dataset folder in the...

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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook
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