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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 some of the libraries which can be used for security automation. Now we are ready to use these modules in our scripts. This will help us to automate many security tasks. We can also use the results from one script or tool to another, thus cascading the tools to automate pentesting.

This book brings insight into the basic usage of Python and its related modules, which helps the reader to attain profound knowledge in Penetration Testing. The chapters cover the fundamental ideas of performing security testing with Python, in a nutshell. The reader can attain unprecedented heights in security testing with the help of the techniques and resources presented in this book. The power of Python is yet to be harnessed in its entirety. Its outreach in security testing is broad, and we leave the reader at a crossroads, to explore this in more depth.