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Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

By : Saurabh Badhwar
Book Image

Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

By: Saurabh Badhwar

Overview of this book

Dynamically typed languages like Python are continuously improving. With the addition of exciting new features and a wide selection of modern libraries and frameworks, Python has emerged as an ideal language for developing enterprise applications. Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python will show you how to build effective applications that are stable, secure, and easily scalable. The book is a detailed guide to building an end-to-end enterprise-grade application in Python. You will learn how to effectively implement Python features and design patterns that will positively impact your application lifecycle. The book also covers advanced concurrency techniques that will help you build a RESTful application with an optimized frontend. Given that security and stability are the foundation for an enterprise application, you’ll be trained on effective testing, performance analysis, and security practices, and understand how to embed them in your codebase during the initial phase. You’ll also be guided in how to move on from a monolithic architecture to one that is service oriented, leveraging microservices and serverless deployment techniques. By the end of the book, you will have become proficient at building efficient enterprise applications in Python.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Taking a look at the attack vectors


Every attack that breaches the security of the system or takes it down, exploits either one or the other vulnerability of the system the application is running on. These vulnerabilities differ for every kind of application. An application that has been built natively for a system may have different attack vectors than an application that has been developed for the web.

To adequately protect the application against attacks, we need to understand the different attack vectors that are used against the different application types.

For here onwards, we will take a brief look at two of the most common application types and the attack vectors that may be used to target those applications.

 

 

Security issues with native applications

Native applications are those applications that have been built specifically for the platform they are running on. These applications take advantage of the libraries and functions that are provided by a given platform to make the best use...