You're reading from Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity Develop AI approaches to solve cybersecurity problems in your organization

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805124962

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Data Governance

Authors (4):

Bojan Kolosnjaji

Apostolis Zarras

Huang Xiao

Peng Xu

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Data-Driven Cybersecurity and AI FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Big Data in Cybersecurity

3. Chapter 2: Automation in Cybersecurity

4. Chapter 3: Cybersecurity Data Analytics

5. Part 2: AI and Where It Fits In

6. Chapter 4: AI, Machine Learning, and Statistics - A Taxonomy

7. Chapter 5: AI Problems and Methods

8. Chapter 6: Workflow, Tools, and Libraries in AI Projects

9. Part 3: Applications of AI in Cybersecurity

10. Chapter 7: Malware and Network Intrusion Detection and Analysis

11. Chapter 8: User and Entity Behavior Analysis

12. Chapter 9: Fraud, Spam, and Phishing Detection

13. Chapter 10: User Authentication and Access Control

14. Chapter 11: Threat Intelligence

15. Chapter 12: Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems

16. Chapter 13: Large Language Models and Cybersecurity

17. Part 4: Common Problems When Applying AI in Cybersecurity

18. Chapter 14: Data Quality and its Usage in the AI and LLM Era

19. Chapter 15: Correlation, Causation, Bias, and Variance

20. Chapter 16: Evaluation, Monitoring, and Feedback Loop

21. Chapter 17: Learning in a Changing and Adversarial Environment

22. Chapter 18: Privacy, Accountability, Explainability, and Trust – Responsible AI

23. Part 5: Final Remarks and Takeaways

24. Chapter 19: Summary

25. Index

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AI, Machine Learning, and Statistics - A Taxonomy

In the current literature and in media articles, there is often a misrepresentation of the meanings of the terms artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These terms are often used interchangeably and as synonyms. However, in this chapter, we differentiate between AI and ML. We define AI as a capability, and ML is defined as a set of techniques that can enable us to achieve some form of AI. For many readers and practitioners, it might also be interesting to reiterate the difference between ML and statistics, more specifically, statistical machine learning. Although it is not required to master the technical details of all these definitions, we believe you could benefit a lot from understanding the key aspects of the disciplines, which will certainly help you with the rest of the book.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: