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

Implementing OAuth clients in Python with the requests-oauthlib module

OAuth 2.0 is an open standard for API authorization, which allows us to share information between sites without having to share an identity. It is a mechanism used today by large companies such as Google, Microsoft, Twitter, GitHub, and LinkedIn, among many others.

This protocol consists of delegating user authentication to the service that manages the accounts, so it is the service that grants access to third-party applications. The OAuth 2.0 standard facilitates relevant aspects such as authenticating API consumers, requesting their authorization to perform specific actions, and providing tools that identify the parties involved in the task flow.

On the official OAuth 2.0 website, https://oauth.net, you can find all the technical details of this framework, and how to implement it in your web pages to make it easier for your users to log in.