Effective Python Penetration Testing

Pen test your system like a pro and overcome vulnerabilities by leveraging Python scripts, libraries, and tools

About This Book

• Learn to utilize your Python scripting skills to pentest a computer system, network, and web-application
• Master the art of assessing vulnerabilities by conducting effective penetration testing
• This ultimate guide that teaches you how to use Python to protect your systems against sophisticated cyber attacks
  

Who This Book Is For

This book is ideal for those who are comfortable with Python or a similar language and need no help with basic programming concepts, but want to understand the basics of penetration testing and the problems pentesters face.

What You Will Learn

• Write Scapy scripts to investigate network traffic
• Get to know application fingerprinting techniques with Python
• Understand the attack scripting techniques
• Write fuzzing tools with pentesting requirements
• Learn basic attack scripting methods
• Utilize cryptographic toolkits in Python
• Automate Python tools and libraries
  

In Detail

Penetration testing is a practice of testing a computer system, network, or web application to find weaknesses in security that an attacker can exploit. Mastering Python Penetration Testing will help you utilize your Python scripting skills to safeguard your networks from cyberattacks.

We will begin by providing you with an overview of Python scripting and penetration testing. You will learn to analyze network traffic by writing Scapy scripts and will see how to fingerprint web applications with Python libraries such as ProxMon and Spynner.

Moving on, you will find out how to write basic attack scripts, and will develop debugging and reverse engineering skills with Python libraries. Toward the end of the book, you will discover how to utilize cryptography toolkits in Python and how to automate Python tools and libraries.

Rejah Rehim is currently a Security Architect with Faya Innovations, India and is a long time preacher of Open Source. He is a steady contributor to the Mozilla Foundation and his name has been featured in the San Francisco Monument made by the Mozilla Foundation. He is a part of the Mozilla Add-on review board and has contributed to the development of several node modules. He has also been credited with the creation of 8 Mozilla Add-ons including the highly successful Clear Console Add-on which was selected as one of the best Mozilla add-ons of 2013. With a user base of more than 44,000, it has registered more than 6,50,000 downloads till the date. He has successfully created world's first one-of-the-kind security testing browser bundle, PenQ an open source Linux based penetration testing browser bundle per-configured with tools for spidering, advanced web searching, fingerprinting, etc. Rejah also is an active member of the OWASP and chapter leader of OWASP Kerala. He is also an active speaker at Coffee@DBG one of the most premier monthly tech rendezvous in Technopark, Kerala. Besides being a part of the Cyber Security division of Faya currently and QBurst in the past, Rejah is also a fan of process automation and has implemented it in Faya.