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Python for Security and Networking - Third Edition

By : José Ortega
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Python for Security and Networking - Third Edition

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By: José Ortega

Overview of this book

Python’s latest updates add numerous libraries that can be used to perform critical security-related missions, including detecting vulnerabilities in web applications, taking care of attacks, and helping to build secure and robust networks that are resilient to them. This fully updated third edition will show you how to make the most of them and improve your security posture. The first part of this book will walk you through Python scripts and libraries that you’ll use throughout the book. Next, you’ll dive deep into the core networking tasks where you will learn how to check a network’s vulnerability using Python security scripting and understand how to check for vulnerabilities in your network – including tasks related to packet sniffing. You’ll also learn how to achieve endpoint protection by leveraging Python packages along with writing forensics scripts. The next part of the book will show you a variety of modern techniques, libraries, and frameworks from the Python ecosystem that will help you extract data from servers and analyze the security in web applications. You’ll take your first steps in extracting data from a domain using OSINT tools and using Python tools to perform forensics tasks. By the end of this book, you will be able to make the most of Python to test the security of your network and applications.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Python Environment and System Programming Tools
4
Section 2: Network Scripting and Packet Sniffing with Python
8
Section 3: Server Scripting and Port Scanning with Python
12
Section 4: Server Vulnerabilities and Security in Web Applications
16
Section 5: Python Forensics
20
Assessments – Answers to the End-of-Chapter Questions
21
Other Books You May Enjoy
22
Index

Summary

One of the objectives of this chapter was to analyze the modules that allow us to connect with FTP, SFTP, and SSH servers. In this chapter, we came across several network protocols and Python libraries that are used for interacting with remote systems. Finally, we reviewed some tools for auditing SSH server security. From a security point of view, by using the modules and tools we discussed in this chapter, you are now well equipped to check the security level of a server to minimize the exposure surface for a possible attacker.

In the next chapter, we will explore programming packages for working with the Nmap scanner and obtain more information about services and vulnerabilities that are running on servers.