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Security with Go

By : John Daniel Leon, Karthik Gaekwad
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Security with Go

By: John Daniel Leon, Karthik Gaekwad

Overview of this book

Go is becoming more and more popular as a language for security experts. Its wide use in server and cloud environments, its speed and ease of use, and its evident capabilities for data analysis, have made it a prime choice for developers who need to think about security. Security with Go is the first Golang security book, and it is useful for both blue team and red team applications. With this book, you will learn how to write secure software, monitor your systems, secure your data, attack systems, and extract information. Defensive topics include cryptography, forensics, packet capturing, and building secure web applications. Offensive topics include brute force, port scanning, packet injection, web scraping, social engineering, and post exploitation techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

Having reading this chapter, you should now have a high-level understanding of the post exploitation phase of an attack. By working through the examples and taking on the mindset of an attacker, you should have developed a better understanding of how to protect your files and network. It is primarily about persistence and information gathering. You can also use an exploited machine to perform all of the examples from Chapter 11, Host Discovery and Enumeration.

The bind shell, reverse bind shell, and web shell were examples of techniques attackers use to maintain persistence. Even if you never need to employ a bind shell, it is important to understand what it is and how attackers use it if you want to identify malicious behavior and keep your systems secure. You can use the port-scanning examples from Chapter 11, Host Discovery and Enumeration, to search for machines with...