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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By : Rejah Rehim
Book Image

Effective Python Penetration Testing

By: Rejah Rehim

Overview of this book

Penetration testing is a practice of testing a computer system, network, or web application to find weaknesses in security that an attacker can exploit. Effective Python Penetration Testing will help you utilize your Python scripting skills to safeguard your networks from cyberattacks. We will begin by providing you with an overview of Python scripting and penetration testing. You will learn to analyze network traffic by writing Scapy scripts and will see how to fingerprint web applications with Python libraries such as ProxMon and Spynner. Moving on, you will find out how to write basic attack scripts, and will develop debugging and reverse engineering skills with Python libraries. Toward the end of the book, you will discover how to utilize cryptography toolkits in Python and how to automate Python tools and libraries.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Effective Python Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


The preceding pages covered a variety of concepts and Python tools to acknowledge various situations, starting from basic Python. After finishing this book, return to the previous chapters and think how can you modify the scripts and integrate them with other tools and script them to suit your own needs. You can make them more effective and efficient for your security testing.

With this chapter, our journey of pentesting with Python has come to an end. In this book, we have gone through analyzing networks, debugging applications, and automating attacks.

Learning is a never-ending process in this ever-changing IT world. We recommend to keep yourself updated about the advancements in the field of pen-testing and the tools related to it. Please go to the following link to keep up with the latest tools written in Python for pentesting: https://github.com/dloss/python-pentest-tools.

I hope this book helps you soar to new heights of excellence in pentesting.