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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

After reading this chapter you should have a basic understanding of Go fundamentals such as what the keywords are, what they do, and what basic data types are available. You should also feel comfortable creating functions and custom data types.

The goal is not to memorize all of the preceding information, but to be aware of what tools are available in the language. Use this chapter as a reference if necessary. You can find more information about the Go language specification at https://golang.org/ref/spec.

In the next chapter, we will look at working with files in Go. We will cover basics such as getting file information, seeing whether a file exists, truncating files, checking permissions, and creating new files. We will also cover the reader and writer interfaces, as well as a number of ways to read and write data. In addition to this, we will cover things such as archiving...