Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Build smart cybersecurity systems with the power of machine learning and deep learning to protect your corporate assets


Key Features

Identify and predict security threats using artificial intelligence

Develop intelligent systems that can detect unusual and suspicious patterns and attacks

Learn how to test the effectiveness of your AI cybersecurity algorithms and tools


Book Description

Today's organizations spend billions of dollars globally on cybersecurity. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a great solution for building smarter and safer security systems that allow you to predict and detect suspicious network activity, such as phishing or unauthorized intrusions.

This cybersecurity book presents and demonstrates popular and successful AI approaches and models that you can adapt to detect potential attacks and protect your corporate systems. You'll learn about the role of machine learning and neural networks, as well as deep learning in cybersecurity, and you'll also learn how you can infuse AI capabilities into building smart defensive mechanisms. As you advance, you'll be able to apply these strategies across a variety of applications, including spam filters, network intrusion detection, botnet detection, and secure authentication.

By the end of this book, you'll be ready to develop intelligent systems that can detect unusual and suspicious patterns and attacks, thereby developing strong network security defenses using AI.


What you will learn

Detect email threats such as spamming and phishing using AI

Categorize APT, zero-days, and polymorphic malware samples

Overcome antivirus limits in threat detection

Predict network intrusions and detect anomalies with machine learning

Verify the strength of biometric authentication procedures with deep learning

Evaluate cybersecurity strategies and learn how you can improve them


Who this book is for

If you're a cybersecurity professional or ethical hacker who wants to build intelligent systems using the power of machine learning and AI, you'll find this book useful. Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts and knowledge of Python programming is essential to get the most out of this book.