Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

A glimpse into deep learning

We have already encountered NNs in Chapter 4, Malware Threat Detection, and Chapter 6, Securing User Authentication, and now, we will extend the topic further by treating DL in a more systematic way. DL is a branch of machine learning (ML) that aims to emulate the cognitive abilities of the human brain in an attempt to perform those typically higher-level human tasks characterized by high complexity, such as facial recognition and speech recognition. DL therefore seeks to emulate the behavior of the human brain by introducing networks based on artificial neurons that are stratified on multiple levels and connected to one another, and that are characterized by a more or less high degree of depth which is where ...