Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

Rehim, Rejah

ISBN 10: 1784399779 / ISBN 13: 9781784399771

Published by Packt Publishing 2017-11, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Python Penetration Testing Cookbook
• Publisher: Packt Publishing 2017-11
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784399779
• ISBN 13: 9781784399771
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Penetration testing is the use of tools and code to attack a system in order to assess its vulnerabilities to external threats. Python allows pen testers to create their own tools.This book provides quick Python recipes to let defense analysts work on their own on the path to discovering, and recovering from, vulnerabilities.

About the Author

Rejah Rehim is currently the Director and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Appfabs. Previously holding the title of Security Architect at FAYA India, he is a long-time preacher of open source.

He is a steady contributor to the Mozilla Foundation and his name has been added to the San Francisco Firefox Monument. A member of the Mozilla add-ons review board, he has contributed to the development of several node modules. He is credited with the creation of nine Mozilla add-ons, including the very popular 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 seen more than 800,000 downloads to date. He has successfully created the world's first security testing browser bundle, PenQ, an open source Linux-based penetration testing browser bundle preconfigured with tools for spidering, advanced web searching, fingerprinting, and so on.

Rejah is also an active member of OWASP and the chapter leader of OWASP Kerala. He is also an active speaker at FAYA:80, a tech community based in Kerala, with the mission of free knowledge sharing. Besides being a part of the cyber security division of FAYA, Rejah is also a student of process automation and has implemented it in FAYA.

Additionally, Rejah also holds the title of commander at Cyberdome, an initiative of the Kerala Police Department.