Shell Scripting for Security Professionals
In this chapter, we’ll do things a bit differently. Instead of showing you new scripting concepts, I’ll show you how to use the concepts that you’ve already learned to perform chores that a security professional might need to do.
Of course, you could do many of these chores with a more complex program, such as nmap. But, there may be times when these tools won’t be available to you. In this chapter, I’ll show you some simple scripts that can do some of these jobs.
Topics in this chapter include:
- Simple scripts for auditing
- Creating simple firewall scripts
- Searching for existing security-related scripts
- Okay, I know that you’re anxious to get started. So, let’s go.
