Python for Security and Networking: Leverage Python modules and tools in securing your network and applications

This book provides a comprehensive guide to securing networks and applications using Python. It covers techniques for detecting vulnerabilities, automating security tasks, and analyzing network traffic. It is designed for network engineers, system administrators, and security professionals, and assumes a basic understanding of programming and Python.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 586 pages
Publication date: 07 June 2023
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Discover security techniques to protect your network and systems using Python.

Create scripts in Python to automate security and pentesting tasks.

Analyze traffic in a network and extract information using Python.

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Program your own tools in Python that can be used in a Network Security environment.

Discover security techniques to protect your network and systems using Python.

Create scripts in Python to automate security and pentesting tasks.

Analyze traffic in a network and extract information using Python.

Book Description

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.

Weight: 1088g
Dimension: 190 x 235 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781837637553
Edition number: 3 Revised edition