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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

By : Furqan Khan
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

By: Furqan Khan

Overview of this book

With the current technological and infrastructural shift, penetration testing is no longer a process-oriented activity. Modern-day penetration testing demands lots of automation and innovation; the only language that dominates all its peers is Python. Given the huge number of tools written in Python, and its popularity in the penetration testing space, this language has always been the first choice for penetration testers. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python walks you through advanced Python programming constructs. Once you are familiar with the core concepts, you’ll explore the advanced uses of Python in the domain of penetration testing and optimization. You’ll then move on to understanding how Python, data science, and the cybersecurity ecosystem communicate with one another. In the concluding chapters, you’ll study exploit development, reverse engineering, and cybersecurity use cases that can be automated with Python. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired adequate skills to leverage Python as a helpful tool to pentest and secure infrastructure, while also creating your own custom exploits.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the basics of Python and explored the syntax of the language. This isn't very different from the languages that you may have studied in the past, such as C, C ++, or Java. However, it's much easier to use and is really powerful in the cyber security domain compared to its peers. This chapter formulates the basics of Python and will help us progress, as some data types such as lists, dictionaries, tuples, and strings are used heavily throughout the course of this book.

In the next chapter, we will learn about conditions and loops and see how loops can be used with the data types that we have studied so far.