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

Introducing the OpenVAS vulnerability scanner

Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) (available at https://www.openvas.org) is one of the most widely used open-source vulnerability scanning and management solutions. This tool is designed to assist network/system administrators in vulnerability identification and intrusion detection tasks.

OpenVas provides a Community Edition that has several services and tools for vulnerability assessment. A vulnerability is a weakness or flaw in a system. Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying and classifying vulnerabilities present in a system or application with the express goal of remediation. Any vulnerability assessment tool has the following characteristics:

It allows us to classify the resources of the system we are analyzing.
It provides the ability to detect potential threats (vulnerabilities) for each resource found.
It performs a classification of the vulnerabilities detected in order...