Preface

Recently, Python has started to gain a lot of traction, with the latest updates adding numerous packages that can be used to perform critical missions. Our main goal with this book is to provide a complete coverage of the techniques and tools for networking and security in Python. With this book, you will be able to make the most of the Python programming language to test the security of your network and applications.

This book will start by walking you through the scripts and libraries of Python that are related to networking and security. You will then dive deep into core networking tasks and learn how to handle networking challenges. Further on, this book will teach you how to write security scripts to detect vulnerabilities in networks and websites. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to achieve endpoint protection by leveraging Python packages, along with how to extract metadata from documents and how to write forensics and cryptography scripts.