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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)

Questions

  1. Which module is the easiest to use since it is designed to facilitate requests to a REST API?
  2. How is a POST request made by passing a dictionary-type data structure that would be sent in the body of the request?
  3. What is the correct way to make a POST request through a proxy server and modify the information of the headers at the same time?
  4. What data structure is necessary to mount if we need to send a request with requests through a proxy?
  5. How do we obtain the code of an HTTP request returned by the server if in the response object we have the response of the server?
  6. With which module can we indicate the number of connections that we are going to reserve using the PoolManager class?
  7. Which module of the requests library offers the possibility of performing Digest-type authentication?
  8. What coding system does the Basic authentication mechanism use to send the username...