Technical requirements

You won’t work with actual malware in this chapter because doing so requires a special virtual machine set up to quarantine the host system from any other connection using a sandbox setup. However, you will see some examples that use code that could interact with malware. This chapter requires that you have access to either Google Colab or Jupyter Notebook to work with the example code. The Requirements to use this book section of Chapter 1, Defining Machine Learning Security, provides additional details on how to set up and configure your programming environment. When testing the code, use a test site, test data, and test APIs to avoid damaging production setups and to improve the reliability of the testing process. Testing over a non-production network is highly recommended, and pretty much essential for this chapter because you don’t want to let any of the malware you experiment with on your own get out. In fact, you may actually want to use...