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Practical LPIC-1 Linux Certification Study Guide
by David ClintonThis book is your complete guide to studying for the Linux Professional Institute's Server Professional (LPIC-1) certification. Every concept, principle, process, and resource that might make an appearance on the exam is fully represented. You will understand every concept by rolling up your sleeves, opening up a terminal, and trying it all yourself. You will find suggestions for practical tasks along with "test-yourself" quizzes at the end of each chapter. Whether you've decided to earn the Linux Professional Institute's Server Professional certification or you simply want to learn more about Linux administration, this book is a great choice. Right now, Linux administration skills are opening doors to some of the hottest job markets. And with the ongoing explosive growth of the cloud computing world - the vast majority of which is being built with Linux - the scope of the opportunities will only increase. Whether or not you end up taking the exam, if you manage to learn this material, you'll have done yourself a real favor. What You Will Learn Basic Linux system administration and package management Device and desktop management Bash scripting Networking fundamentals Security administration Who This Book Is For Most potential readers will already have a decent idea of what Linux is and what kinds of things can be done with it, and are looking to acquire or formalize a more structured and complete ability to confidently administrate Linux systems.
Practical LPIC-3 300: Prepare for the Highest Level Professional Linux Certification
by Antonio VazquezGain the essential skills and hands-on expertise required to pass the LPIC-3 300 certification exam. This book provides the insight for you to confidently install, manage and troubleshoot OpenLDAP, Samba, and FreeIPA. Helping you to get started from scratch, this guide is divided into three comprehensive sections covering everything you'll need to prepare for the exam.Part 1 focuses on OpenLDAP and topics including securing the directory, integration with PAM and replication. Part 2 covers Samba and teaches you about Samba architecture, using different back ends, print services, and deploying Samba as a stand-alone server, PDC, and Active Directory Domain Controller. Finally, Part 3 explains how to manage FreeIPA and how to integrate it with Active Directory.Practical LPIC-3 300 is the perfect study guide for anyone interested in the LPIC-3 300 certification exam, OpenLDAP, Samba, or FreeIPA.What You'll Learn Integrate LDAP with PAM and NSS, and with Active Directory and KerberosManage OpenLDAP replication and server performance tuningUse Samba as a PDC and BDCConfigure Samba as a domain member server in an existing NT domainUse Samba as an AD Compatible Domain ControllerReplicate, manage, and integrate FreeIPA Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who is preparing for the LPIC-3 300 exam, or those interested in learning about OpenLDAP and Samba in general.
Practical LTE based security forces PMR networks
by Arnaud Henry-LabordèreSecurity forces PMR networks are moving from proprietary technologies for their Mission Critical Push-To-Talk basic service, and their data services which must provide large bandwidth real-time access, to the databases. LTE Based is adopted with backup access to public MNOs to complement their own radio coverage. Specific technologies such as multicasting of visio are required so the MCPTT works within a restricted bandwidth. The need to be able to change the main MNOs to provide resilient coverage requires specific choices of SIM cards, with OTAble security domains. Practical LTE Based Security Forces PMR Networks assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge of the 4G network architecture and services, and the book focusses on the specific features and choices required to fulfill the need of security forces PMR networks. These include tactical and centralized, including LTE based voice services VoLTE and IMS. It can be used as a reference or textbook, with many detailed call flows and traces being included. The author, who has also a long teaching career in Operations Research, provides mathematical models for the optimization of tactical network federations, multicast coverage and allocation of preemptive priorities to PMR group members. He is a pioneer in the area of Virtual Roaming, an application of graph theory and telecommunications to provide roaming without direct relations, having previously published books on SMS Hubs, SS7 Hubs, Diameter Hubs, GTP Hubs. The use of M2M (monitoring devices) for security forces with mobility is covered in detail in the book, including the new LoRa virtual roaming which goes beyond the scope of PMR.
Practical Machine Learning: A New Look at Anomaly Detection
by Ted Dunning Ellen FriedmanFinding Data Anomalies You Didn't Know to Look ForAnomaly detection is the detective work of machine learning: finding the unusual, catching the fraud, discovering strange activity in large and complex datasets. But, unlike Sherlock Holmes, you may not know what the puzzle is, much less what “suspects” you’re looking for. This O’Reilly report uses practical examples to explain how the underlying concepts of anomaly detection work.From banking security to natural sciences, medicine, and marketing, anomaly detection has many useful applications in this age of big data. And the search for anomalies will intensify once the Internet of Things spawns even more new types of data. The concepts described in this report will help you tackle anomaly detection in your own project.Use probabilistic models to predict what’s normal and contrast that to what you observeSet an adaptive threshold to determine which data falls outside of the normal range, using the t-digest algorithmEstablish normal fluctuations in complex systems and signals (such as an EKG) with a more adaptive probablistic modelUse historical data to discover anomalies in sporadic event streams, such as web trafficLearn how to use deviations in expected behavior to trigger fraud alerts
Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation
by Ted Dunning Ellen FriedmanBuilding a simple but powerful recommendation system is much easier than you think. Approachable for all levels of expertise, this report explains innovations that make machine learning practical for business production settings—and demonstrates how even a small-scale development team can design an effective large-scale recommendation system.Apache Mahout committers Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman walk you through a design that relies on careful simplification. You’ll learn how to collect the right data, analyze it with an algorithm from the Mahout library, and then easily deploy the recommender using search technology, such as Apache Solr or Elasticsearch. Powerful and effective, this efficient combination does learning offline and delivers rapid response recommendations in real time.Understand the tradeoffs between simple and complex recommendersCollect user data that tracks user actions—rather than their ratingsPredict what a user wants based on behavior by others, using Mahoutfor co-occurrence analysisUse search technology to offer recommendations in real time, complete with item metadataWatch the recommender in action with a music service exampleImprove your recommender with dithering, multimodal recommendation, and other techniques
Practical Machine Learning: A New Look at Anomaly Detection
by Ellen Friedman Ted DunningFinding Data Anomalies You Didn't Know to Look ForAnomaly detection is the detective work of machine learning: finding the unusual, catching the fraud, discovering strange activity in large and complex datasets. But, unlike Sherlock Holmes, you may not know what the puzzle is, much less what "suspects" you're looking for. This O'Reilly report uses practical examples to explain how the underlying concepts of anomaly detection work.From banking security to natural sciences, medicine, and marketing, anomaly detection has many useful applications in this age of big data. And the search for anomalies will intensify once the Internet of Things spawns even more new types of data. The concepts described in this report will help you tackle anomaly detection in your own project.Use probabilistic models to predict what's normal and contrast that to what you observeSet an adaptive threshold to determine which data falls outside of the normal range, using the t-digest algorithmEstablish normal fluctuations in complex systems and signals (such as an EKG) with a more adaptive probablistic modelUse historical data to discover anomalies in sporadic event streams, such as web trafficLearn how to use deviations in expected behavior to trigger fraud alerts
Practical Machine Learning
by Sunila GollapudiThis book has been created for data scientists who want to see machine learning in action and explore its real-world application. With guidance on everything from the fundamentals of machine learning and predictive analytics to the latest innovations set to lead the big data revolution into the future, this is an unmissable resource for anyone dedicated to tackling current big data challenges. Some knowledge of Java programming and any scripting language is advisable if you want to get started immediately.
Practical Machine Learning and Image Processing: For Facial Recognition, Object Detection, and Pattern Recognition Using Python
by Himanshu SinghGain insights into image-processing methodologies and algorithms, using machine learning and neural networks in Python. This book begins with the environment setup, understanding basic image-processing terminology, and exploring Python concepts that will be useful for implementing the algorithms discussed in the book. You will then cover all the core image processing algorithms in detail before moving onto the biggest computer vision library: OpenCV. You’ll see the OpenCV algorithms and how to use them for image processing. The next section looks at advanced machine learning and deep learning methods for image processing and classification. You’ll work with concepts such as pulse coupled neural networks, AdaBoost, XG boost, and convolutional neural networks for image-specific applications. Later you’ll explore how models are made in real time and then deployed using various DevOps tools. All the concepts in Practical Machine Learning and Image Processing are explained using real-life scenarios. After reading this book you will be able to apply image processing techniques and make machine learning models for customized application.What You Will LearnDiscover image-processing algorithms and their applications using PythonExplore image processing using the OpenCV libraryUse TensorFlow, scikit-learn, NumPy, and other librariesWork with machine learning and deep learning algorithms for image processingApply image-processing techniques to five real-time projectsWho This Book Is ForData scientists and software developers interested in image processing and computer vision.
Practical Machine Learning Cookbook
by Atul TripathiResolving and offering solutions to your machine learning problems with R About This Book • Implement a wide range of algorithms and techniques for tackling complex data • Improve predictions and recommendations to have better levels of accuracy • Optimize performance of your machine-learning systems Who This Book Is For This book is for analysts, statisticians, and data scientists with knowledge of fundamentals of machine learning and statistics, who need help in dealing with challenging scenarios faced every day of working in the field of machine learning and improving system performance and accuracy. It is assumed that as a reader you have a good understanding of mathematics. Working knowledge of R is expected. What You Will Learn • Get equipped with a deeper understanding of how to apply machine-learning techniques • Implement each of the advanced machine-learning techniques • Solve real-life problems that are encountered in order to make your applications produce improved results • Gain hands-on experience in problem solving for your machine-learning systems • Understand the methods of collecting data, preparing data for usage, training the model, evaluating the model's performance, and improving the model's performance In Detail Machine learning has become the new black. The challenge in today's world is the explosion of data from existing legacy data and incoming new structured and unstructured data. The complexity of discovering, understanding, performing analysis, and predicting outcomes on the data using machine learning algorithms is a challenge. This cookbook will help solve everyday challenges you face as a data scientist. The application of various data science techniques and on multiple data sets based on real-world challenges you face will help you appreciate a variety of techniques used in various situations. The first half of the book provides recipes on fairly complex machine-learning systems, where you'll learn to explore new areas of applications of machine learning and improve its efficiency. That includes recipes on classifications, neural networks, unsupervised and supervised learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and more. The second half of the book focuses on three different machine learning case studies, all based on real-world data, and offers solutions and solves specific machine-learning issues in each one. Style and approach Following a cookbook approach, we'll teach you how to solve everyday difficulties and struggles you encounter.
Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision: End-to-End Machine Learning for Images
by Valliappa Lakshmanan Martin Görner Ryan GillardThis practical book shows you how to employ machine learning models to extract information from images. ML engineers and data scientists will learn how to solve a variety of image problems including classification, object detection, autoencoders, image generation, counting, and captioning with proven ML techniques. This book provides a great introduction to end-to-end deep learning: dataset creation, data preprocessing, model design, model training, evaluation, deployment, and interpretability.Google engineers Valliappa Lakshmanan, Martin Görner, and Ryan Gillard show you how to develop accurate and explainable computer vision ML models and put them into large-scale production using robust ML architecture in a flexible and maintainable way. You'll learn how to design, train, evaluate, and predict with models written in TensorFlow or Keras.You'll learn how to:Design ML architecture for computer vision tasksSelect a model (such as ResNet, SqueezeNet, or EfficientNet) appropriate to your taskCreate an end-to-end ML pipeline to train, evaluate, deploy, and explain your modelPreprocess images for data augmentation and to support learnabilityIncorporate explainability and responsible AI best practicesDeploy image models as web services or on edge devicesMonitor and manage ML models
Practical Machine Learning for Streaming Data with Python: Design, Develop, and Validate Online Learning Models
by Sayan PutatundaDesign, develop, and validate machine learning models with streaming data using the Scikit-Multiflow framework. This book is a quick start guide for data scientists and machine learning engineers looking to implement machine learning models for streaming data with Python to generate real-time insights. You'll start with an introduction to streaming data, the various challenges associated with it, some of its real-world business applications, and various windowing techniques. You'll then examine incremental and online learning algorithms, and the concept of model evaluation with streaming data and get introduced to the Scikit-Multiflow framework in Python. This is followed by a review of the various change detection/concept drift detection algorithms and the implementation of various datasets using Scikit-Multiflow.Introduction to the various supervised and unsupervised algorithms for streaming data, and their implementation on various datasets using Python are also covered. The book concludes by briefly covering other open-source tools available for streaming data such as Spark, MOA (Massive Online Analysis), Kafka, and more.What You'll LearnUnderstand machine learning with streaming data conceptsReview incremental and online learningDevelop models for detecting concept driftExplore techniques for classification, regression, and ensemble learning in streaming data contextsApply best practices for debugging and validating machine learning models in streaming data contextGet introduced to other open-source frameworks for handling streaming data.Who This Book Is ForMachine learning engineers and data science professionals
Practical Machine Learning Illustrated with KNIME
by Yu Geng Qin Li Geng Yang Wan QiuThis book guides professionals and students from various backgrounds to use machine learning in their own fields with low-code platform KNIME and without coding. Many people from various industries need use machine learning to solve problems in their own domains. However, machine learning is often viewed as the domain of programmers, especially for those who are familiar with Python. It is too hard for people from different backgrounds to learn Python to use machine learning. KNIME, the low-code platform, comes to help. KNIME helps people use machine learning in an intuitive environment, enabling everyone to focus on what to do instead of how to do. This book helps the readers gain an intuitive understanding of the basic concepts of machine learning through illustrations to practice machine learning in their respective fields. The author provides a practical guide on how to participate in Kaggle completions with KNIME to practice machine learning techniques.
Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript: TensorFlow.js for Web Developers
by Charlie GerardBuild machine learning web applications without having to learn a new language. This book will help you develop basic knowledge of machine learning concepts and applications. You’ll learn not only theory, but also dive into code samples and example projects with TensorFlow.js. Using these skills and your knowledge as a web developer, you’ll add a whole new field of development to your tool set. This will give you a more concrete understanding of the possibilities offered by machine learning. Discover how ML will impact the future of not just programming in general, but web development specifically. Machine learning is currently one of the most exciting technology fields with the potential to impact industries from health to home automation to retail, and even art. Google has now introduced TensorFlow.js—an iteration of TensorFlow aimed directly at web developers. Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript will help you stay relevant in the tech industry with new tools, trends, and best practices.What You'll LearnUse the JavaScript framework for MLBuild machine learning applications for the webDevelop dynamic and intelligent web contentWho This Book Is ForWeb developers and who want a hands-on introduction to machine learning in JavaScript. A working knowledge of the JavaScript language is recommended.
Practical Machine Learning in R
by Fred Nwanganga Mike ChappleGuides professionals and students through the rapidly growing field of machine learning with hands-on examples in the popular R programming language Machine learning—a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which enables computers to improve their results and learn new approaches without explicit instructions—allows organizations to reveal patterns in their data and incorporate predictive analytics into their decision-making process. Practical Machine Learning in R provides a hands-on approach to solving business problems with intelligent, self-learning computer algorithms. Bestselling author and data analytics experts Fred Nwanganga and Mike Chapple explain what machine learning is, demonstrate its organizational benefits, and provide hands-on examples created in the R programming language. A perfect guide for professional self-taught learners or students in an introductory machine learning course, this reader-friendly book illustrates the numerous real-world business uses of machine learning approaches. Clear and detailed chapters cover data wrangling, R programming with the popular RStudio tool, classification and regression techniques, performance evaluation, and more. Explores data management techniques, including data collection, exploration and dimensionality reduction Covers unsupervised learning, where readers identify and summarize patterns using approaches such as apriori, eclat and clustering Describes the principles behind the Nearest Neighbor, Decision Tree and Naive Bayes classification techniques Explains how to evaluate and choose the right model, as well as how to improve model performance using ensemble methods such as Random Forest and XGBoost Practical Machine Learning in R is a must-have guide for business analysts, data scientists, and other professionals interested in leveraging the power of AI to solve business problems, as well as students and independent learners seeking to enter the field.
Practical Machine Learning with AWS: Process, Build, Deploy, and Productionize Your Models Using AWS
by Himanshu SinghSuccessfully build, tune, deploy, and productionize any machine learning model, and know how to automate the process from data processing to deployment. This book is divided into three parts. Part I introduces basic cloud concepts and terminologies related to AWS services such as S3, EC2, Identity Access Management, Roles, Load Balancer, and Cloud Formation. It also covers cloud security topics such as AWS Compliance and artifacts, and the AWS Shield and CloudWatch monitoring service built for developers and DevOps engineers. Part II covers machine learning in AWS using SageMaker, which gives developers and data scientists the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models. Part III explores other AWS services such as Amazon Comprehend (a natural language processing service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text), Amazon Forecast (helps you deliver accurate forecasts), and Amazon Textract.By the end of the book, you will understand the machine learning pipeline and how to execute any machine learning model using AWS. The book will also help you prepare for the AWS Certified Machine Learning—Specialty certification exam.What You Will LearnBe familiar with the different machine learning services offered by AWS Understand S3, EC2, Identity Access Management, and Cloud FormationUnderstand SageMaker, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon ForecastExecute live projects: from the pre-processing phase to deployment on AWSWho This Book Is ForMachine learning engineers who want to learn AWS machine learning services, and acquire an AWS machine learning specialty certification
Practical Machine Learning with H2O: Powerful, Scalable Techniques for Deep Learning and AI
by Darren CookMachine learning has finally come of age. With H2O software, you can perform machine learning and data analysis using a simple open source framework that’s easy to use, has a wide range of OS and language support, and scales for big data. This hands-on guide teaches you how to use H20 with only minimal math and theory behind the learning algorithms.If you’re familiar with R or Python, know a bit of statistics, and have some experience manipulating data, author Darren Cook will take you through H2O basics and help you conduct machine-learning experiments on different sample data sets. You’ll explore several modern machine-learning techniques such as deep learning, random forests, unsupervised learning, and ensemble learning.Learn how to import, manipulate, and export data with H2OExplore key machine-learning concepts, such as cross-validation and validation data setsWork with three diverse data sets, including a regression, a multinomial classification, and a binomial classificationUse H2O to analyze each sample data set with four supervised machine-learning algorithmsUnderstand how cluster analysis and other unsupervised machine-learning algorithms work
Practical Machine Learning with R: Define, build, and evaluate machine learning models for real-world applications
by Brindha Priyadarshini Jeyaraman Ludvig Renbo Olsen Monicah WambuguUnderstand how machine learning works and get hands-on experience of using R to build algorithms that can solve various real-world problems Key Features Gain a comprehensive overview of different machine learning techniques Explore various methods for selecting a particular algorithm Implement a machine learning project from problem definition through to the final model Book Description With huge amounts of data being generated every moment, businesses need applications that apply complex mathematical calculations to data repeatedly and at speed. With machine learning techniques and R, you can easily develop these kinds of applications in an efficient way. Practical Machine Learning with R begins by helping you grasp the basics of machine learning methods, while also highlighting how and why they work. You will understand how to get these algorithms to work in practice, rather than focusing on mathematical derivations. As you progress from one chapter to another, you will gain hands-on experience of building a machine learning solution in R. Next, using R packages such as rpart, random forest, and multiple imputation by chained equations (MICE), you will learn to implement algorithms including neural net classifier, decision trees, and linear and non-linear regression. As you progress through the book, you'll delve into various machine learning techniques for both supervised and unsupervised learning approaches. In addition to this, you'll gain insights into partitioning the datasets and mechanisms to evaluate the results from each model and be able to compare them. By the end of this book, you will have gained expertise in solving your business problems, starting by forming a good problem statement, selecting the most appropriate model to solve your problem, and then ensuring that you do not overtrain it. What you will learn Define a problem that can be solved by training a machine learning model Obtain, verify and clean data before transforming it into the correct format for use Perform exploratory analysis and extract features from data Build models for neural net, linear and non-linear regression, classification, and clustering Evaluate the performance of a model with the right metrics Implement a classification problem using the neural net package Employ a decision tree using the random forest library Who this book is for If you are a data analyst, data scientist, or a business analyst who wants to understand the process of machine learning and apply it to a real dataset using R, this book is just what you need. Data scientists who use Python and want to implement their machine learning solutions using R will also find this book very useful. The book will also enable novice programmers to start their journey in data science. Basic knowledge of any programming language is all you need to get started.
Practical Machine Learning with Rust: Creating Intelligent Applications in Rust
by Joydeep BhattacharjeeExplore machine learning in Rust and learn about the intricacies of creating machine learning applications. This book begins by covering the important concepts of machine learning such as supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, and the basics of Rust. Further, you’ll dive into the more specific fields of machine learning, such as computer vision and natural language processing, and look at the Rust libraries that help create applications for those domains. We will also look at how to deploy these applications either on site or over the cloud. After reading Practical Machine Learning with Rust, you will have a solid understanding of creating high computation libraries using Rust. Armed with the knowledge of this amazing language, you will be able to create applications that are more performant, memory safe, and less resource heavy. What You Will LearnWrite machine learning algorithms in RustUse Rust libraries for different tasks in machine learningCreate concise Rust packages for your machine learning applicationsImplement NLP and computer vision in RustDeploy your code in the cloud and on bare metal servers Who This Book Is For Machine learning engineers and software engineers interested in building machine learning applications in Rust.
Practical Maintenance Plans in SQL Server
by Bradley BeardThis book is a complete guide to setting up and maintaining maintenance plans for SQL Server Database Administrators. Maintenance plans too often consist of a backup task and that's it, but there is so much more that can and must be done to ensure the integrity of your most important company resource - the data you are tasked to manage and safeguard. This book walks even the newest of users through creating a powerful, automated maintenance plan. Automate your job using SQL Server Agent to leverage the power of Maintenance Plans to deliver real, proactive solutions to common issues. Schedule common tasks such as backups and index rebuilds to run automatically, and get early-warning notifications of impending problems relating to resource usage and query performance. By the time your boss knows to call you about a problem, you'll have already called him to describe your solution. The large majority of books never really cover the topic of inheriting a database server with multiple live databases; the common thread is that the databases will be created and maintained by the reader forever and ever. In the real world, that scenario rarely happens. Practical Maintenance Plans in SQL Server covers that scenario and provides you with the knowledge and tools needed to get comfortable writing your own maintenance plans for any SQL Server database, whether created by you or inherited. Shows the different tasks that can be run in a maintenance plan. Explains how and why those tasks can be implemented. Provides a roadmap to creating your own custom maintenance plan. What you'll learn Implement a completely automated backup maintenance plan Be alerted to performance problems and outages ahead of your boss Learn the different types of database maintenance tasks Plan the workflow of tasks within a maintenance plan Automate your work by implementing custom maintenance plans Who this book is for Practical Maintenance Plans in SQL Server is for any level of database administrator, but specifically it's for those administrators with a real need to set up a powerful maintenance plan quickly. New and seasoned administrators will appreciate the book for its robust learning pattern of visual aids in combination with explanations and scenarios. Practical Maintenance Plans in SQL Server is the perfect "new hire" gift for new database administrators in any organization.
Practical Malware Analysis: A Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
by Michael Sikorski Andrew HonigMalware analysis is big business, and attacks can cost a company dearly. When malware breaches your defenses, you need to act quickly to cure current infections and prevent future ones from occurring.For those who want to stay ahead of the latest malware, Practical Malware Analysis will teach you the tools and techniques used by professional analysts. With this book as your guide, you'll be able to safely analyze, debug, and disassemble any malicious software that comes your way.You'll learn how to:–Set up a safe virtual environment to analyze malware–Quickly extract network signatures and host-based indicators–Use key analysis tools like IDA Pro, OllyDbg, and WinDbg–Overcome malware tricks like obfuscation, anti-disassembly, anti-debugging, and anti-virtual machine techniques–Use your newfound knowledge of Windows internals for malware analysis–Develop a methodology for unpacking malware and get practical experience with five of the most popular packers–Analyze special cases of malware with shellcode, C++, and 64-bit codeHands-on labs throughout the book challenge you to practice and synthesize your skills as you dissect real malware samples, and pages of detailed dissections offer an over-the-shoulder look at how the pros do it. You'll learn how to crack open malware to see how it really works, determine what damage it has done, thoroughly clean your network, and ensure that the malware never comes back.Malware analysis is a cat-and-mouse game with rules that are constantly changing, so make sure you have the fundamentals. Whether you're tasked with securing one network or a thousand networks, or you're making a living as a malware analyst, you'll find what you need to succeed in Practical Malware Analysis.
Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-on Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
by Michael Sikorski Andrew HonigMalware analysis is big business, and attacks can cost a company dearly. When malware breaches your defenses, you need to act quickly to cure current infections and prevent future ones from occurring. For those who want to stay ahead of the latest malware, Practical Malware Analysis will teach you the tools and techniques used by professional analysts. With this book as your guide, you'll be able to safely analyze, debug, and disassemble any malicious software that comes your way. You'll learn how to: Set up a safe virtual environment to analyze malware Quickly extract network signatures and host-based indicators Use key analysis tools like IDA Pro, OllyDbg, and WinDbg Overcome malware tricks like obfuscation, anti-disassembly, anti-debugging, and anti-virtual machine techniques Use your newfound knowledge of Windows internals for malware analysis Develop a methodology for unpacking malware and get practical experience with five of the most popular packers Analyze special cases of malware with shellcode, C++, and 64-bit code Hands-on labs throughout the book challenge you to practice and synthesize your skills as you dissect real malware samples, and pages of detailed dissections offer an over-the-shoulder look at how the pros do it. You'll learn how to crack open malware to see how it really works, determine what damage it has done, thoroughly clean your network, and ensure that the malware never comes back. Malware analysis is a cat-and-mouse game with rules that are constantly changing, so make sure you have the fundamentals. Whether you're tasked with securing one network or a thousand networks, or you're making a living as a malware analyst, you'll find what you need to succeed in Practical Malware Analysis.
Practical Mathematical Cryptography (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series)
by Kristian GjøsteenPractical Mathematical Cryptography provides a clear and accessible introduction to practical mathematical cryptography. Cryptography, both as a science and as practice, lies at the intersection of mathematics and the science of computation, and the presentation emphasises the essential mathematical nature of the computations and arguments involved in cryptography. Cryptography is also a practical science, and the book shows how modern cryptography solves important practical problems in the real world, developing the theory and practice of cryptography from the basics to secure messaging and voting. The presentation provides a unified and consistent treatment of the most important cryptographic topics, from the initial design and analysis of basic cryptographic schemes towards applications. Features Builds from theory toward practical applications Suitable as the main text for a mathematical cryptography course Focus on secure messaging and voting systems.
Practical MATLAB: With Modeling, Simulation, and Processing Projects
by Irfan TurkApply MATLAB programming to the mathematical modeling of real-life problems from a wide range of topics. This pragmatic book shows you how to solve your programming problems, starting with a brief primer on MATLAB and the fundamentals of the MATLAB programming language. Then, you’ll build fully working examples and computational models found in the financial, engineering, and scientific sectors. As part of this section, you’ll cover signal and image processing, as well as GUIs. After reading and using Practical MATLAB and its accompanying source code, you’ll have the practical know-how and code to apply to your own MATLAB programming projects. What You Will LearnDiscover the fundamentals of MATLAB and how to get started with it for problem solvingApply MATLAB to a variety of problems and case studiesCarry out economic and financial modeling with MATLAB, including option pricing and compound interestUse MATLAB for simulation problems such as coin flips, dice rolling, random walks, and traffic flowsSolve computational biology problems with MATLABImplement signal processing with MATLAB, including currents, Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), and harmonic analysisProcess images with filters and edge detectionBuild applications with GUIs Who This Book Is ForPeople with some prior experience with programming and MATLAB.
Practical MATLAB Deep Learning: A Projects-Based Approach
by Michael Paluszek Stephanie Thomas Eric HamHarness the power of MATLAB for deep-learning challenges. Practical MATLAB Deep Learning, Second Edition, remains a one-of a-kind book that provides an introduction to deep learning and using MATLAB's deep-learning toolboxes. In this book, you’ll see how these toolboxes provide the complete set of functions needed to implement all aspects of deep learning. This edition includes new and expanded projects, and covers generative deep learning and reinforcement learning. Over the course of the book, you'll learn to model complex systems and apply deep learning to problems in those areas. Applications include: Aircraft navigationAn aircraft that lands on Titan, the moon of Saturn, using reinforcement learningStock market predictionNatural language processingMusic creation usng generative deep learningPlasma controlEarth sensor processing for spacecraftMATLAB Bluetooth data acquisition applied to dance physics What You Will LearnExplore deep learning using MATLAB and compare it to algorithmsWrite a deep learning function in MATLAB and train it with examplesUse MATLAB toolboxes related to deep learningImplement tokamak disruption predictionNow includes reinforcement learningWho This Book Is For Engineers, data scientists, and students wanting a book rich in examples on deep learning using MATLAB.
Practical MATLAB Deep Learning: A Project-Based Approach
by Stephanie Thomas Michael PaluszekHarness the power of MATLAB for deep-learning challenges. This book provides an introduction to deep learning and using MATLAB's deep-learning toolboxes. You’ll see how these toolboxes provide the complete set of functions needed to implement all aspects of deep learning. Along the way, you'll learn to model complex systems, including the stock market, natural language, and angles-only orbit determination. You’ll cover dynamics and control, and integrate deep-learning algorithms and approaches using MATLAB. You'll also apply deep learning to aircraft navigation using images. Finally, you'll carry out classification of ballet pirouettes using an inertial measurement unit to experiment with MATLAB's hardware capabilities. What You Will LearnExplore deep learning using MATLAB and compare it to algorithmsWrite a deep learning function in MATLAB and train it with examplesUse MATLAB toolboxes related to deep learningImplement tokamak disruption predictionWho This Book Is For Engineers, data scientists, and students wanting a book rich in examples on deep learning using MATLAB.