You're reading from Python for Security and Networking Leverage Python modules and tools in securing your network and applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837637553

Length 586 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Information Security

Author (1):

José Manuel Ortega

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Python Environment and System Programming Tools

2. Working with Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER

3. System Programming Packages

4. Section 2: Network Scripting and Packet Sniffing with Python

5. Socket Programming

6. HTTP Programming and Web Authentication

7. Analyzing Network Traffic and Packet Sniffing

8. Section 3: Server Scripting and Port Scanning with Python

9. Gathering Information from Servers with OSINT Tools

10. Interacting with FTP, SFTP, and SSH Servers

11. Working with Nmap Scanner

12. Section 4: Server Vulnerabilities and Security in Web Applications

13. Interacting with Vulnerability Scanners

14. Interacting with Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

15. Obtain Information from Vulnerabilities Databases

16. Section 5: Python Forensics

17. Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

18. Python Tools for Brute-Force Attacks

19. Cryptography and Code Obfuscation

20. Assessments – Answers to the End-of-Chapter Questions

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the OpenVAS and OWASP ZAP vulnerability scanners and the reporting tools that they give us for reporting the vulnerabilities that we find in the servers and web applications we scan. Also, we covered how to use these scanners programmatically with Python, with the python-gvm and owasp-zap modules.

The tools we covered in this chapter use different protocols to generate requests to determine which services are running on a remote host or on the host itself. Therefore, equipped with these tools, you can now identify different security risks in both one system and various systems on a network.

In the next chapter, we will identify server vulnerabilities in web applications with tools such as WPScan, which discovers vulnerabilities in and analyzes the security of WordPress sites, and other tools like SQLInject-Finder and Sqlmap, which detect SQL injection vulnerabilities in websites.