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Mastering Python for Networking and Security

By : José Ortega
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Mastering Python for Networking and Security

By: José Ortega

Overview of this book

It’s becoming more and more apparent that security is a critical aspect of IT infrastructure. A data breach is a major security incident, usually carried out by just hacking a simple network line. Increasing your network’s security helps step up your defenses against cyber attacks. Meanwhile, Python is being used for increasingly advanced tasks, with the latest update introducing many new packages. This book focuses on leveraging these updated packages to build a secure network with the help of Python scripting. This book covers topics from building a network to the different procedures you need to follow to secure it. You’ll first be introduced to different packages and libraries, before moving on to different ways to build a network with the help of Python scripting. Later, you will learn how to check a network’s vulnerability using Python security scripting, and understand how to check vulnerabilities in your network. As you progress through the chapters, you will also learn how to achieve endpoint protection by leveraging Python packages along with writing forensic scripts. By the end of this book, you will be able to get the most out of the Python language to build secure and robust networks that are resilient to attacks.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Introducing vulnerabilities in web applications with OWASP

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 is a list of the 10 most critical web-application security risks. In this section, we will comment on the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities and explain in detail the cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Introduction to OWASP

The Open Web Application Security Project is an excellent resource to learn about ways to protect your web apps from bad behaviors. There are many kinds of application-security vulnerabilities. OWASP ranked the top ten application security risks at OWASP Top Ten Project: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_2017_Project.

The full classification can be found in the shared OWASP...