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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By : Rejah Rehim
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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


We have gone through the basics of packet crafting and sniffing with various Python modules, and saw that Scapy is very powerful and easy to use. By now we have learned the basics of socket programming and Scapy. During our security assessments, we may need the raw outputs and access to basic levels of packet topology so that we can analyze and make decisions ourselves. The most attractive part of Scapy is that it can be imported and used to create networking tools without going to create packets from scratch.

We will discuss application fingerprinting with Python in more detail in the next chapter.