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

Interacting with Vulnerability Scanners

In this chapter, we will learn about OpenVAS vulnerability scanners and the reporting tools that they provide for reporting the vulnerabilities that we find in servers and web applications. Also, we will cover how to use them programmatically with Python via the owasp-zap and python-gvm modules. After getting information about a system, including its services, ports, and operating systems, these tools provide a way to identify vulnerabilities in the different databases available on the internet, such as CVE and NVD.

Both the tools we are about to learn about are vulnerability detection applications widely used by computer security experts when they must perform audit tasks that are part of a vulnerability management program. With the use of these tools, together with the ability to search vulnerability databases, we can obtain precise information on the different vulnerabilities present in the target we are analyzing, and can thus take steps...