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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python Enhance your ethical hacking skills to build automated and intelligent systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788990820
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Furqan Khan Furqan Khan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Python 2. Building Python Scripts FREE CHAPTER 3. Concept Handling 4. Advanced Python Modules 5. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 1 6. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 2 7. Machine Learning and Cybersecurity 8. Automating Web Application Scanning - Part 1 9. Automated Web Application Scanning - Part 2 10. Building a Custom Crawler 11. Reverse Engineering Linux Applications 12. Reverse Engineering Windows Applications 13. Exploit Development 14. Cyber Threat Intelligence 15. Other Wonders of Python 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cyber threat intelligence platforms

As discussed earlier, the process of intelligence gathering can be automated either with the help of different scripts that we can combine, or to have a central platform in place capable for both collecting and sharing cyber threat intelligence. Central platforms that have this capability are called cyber threat intelligence platforms. Let's try to understand the process of semi-automation and complete automation of cyber threat intelligence gathering:

  • The following diagram represents the problem statement that a threat intelligence platform tries to solve. In a large organization, the SIEM tool generates 100–100,000 events per minute, and the rule engine triggers 20–50 alerts in an hour. The analyst needs to validate each alert manually and check if the IP or domain in question is legitimate or not. The analyst has to use...
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