Machine learning and security are all the rage. With the RSA Conference a little more than 2 weeks away, there will be plenty of firms on the expo floor touting their security solutions based on AI, deep learning, and machine learning. In Machine Learning and Security: Protecting Systems with Data and Algorithms (O'Reilly Media 978-1491979907), authors Clarence Chio and David Freeman have written a no-nonsense technical and practical guide showing how you can avoid that hype, and truly use machine learning to enhance information security. After a brief introduction to what machine learning is, …