Summary
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to combat cyberthreats. ML enables tools known as security classifiers to identify potential cyberthreats, e.g., to detect malicious software ("malware") or a network intrusion. Such classifiers are typically developed by collecting data on threats (e.g., malware samples) and benign entities (e.g., legitimate software), then building an ML model that learns patterns in the gathered training data that suggest the presence of threats. The model is then used in real systems to help identify new undetected threats. However, for many security problems, go
