Manuel Ortega - Mastering Python for networking and security : leverage Python scripts and libraries to overcome networking and security issues

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Jos Manuel Ortega is a Software Engineer and he focuses on new technologies, open source, security and testing. His career target from the beginning has been to specialize in Python and security testing projects. In recent years he has developed interest in security development, especially in pentesting with python. Currently he is working as a security tester engineer and his functions in the project are analysis and testing the security of applications both web and mobile environments.

He has taught at university level and collaborated with the official school of computer engineers. He has also been a speaker at various conferences. He is very enthusiastic to learn about new technologies and he loves to share his knowledge with community.

Daniel Draper is an Australian software developer/entrepreneur and has been working in the software and Infosec field for over 10 years. He is a huge fan of kittens and the colour purple. Dan manages the YouTube channel DrapsTV providing free education for the curious novice to the advanced Jedi.

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Recently, Python has started to gain a lot of traction, with the latest updates of Python adding numerous packages that can be used to perform critical missions. Our main goal with this book is to help you leverage Pythons packages to detect and exploit vulnerabilities and take care of networking challenges.

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 take care of networking challenges. Later, this book will teach you how to write security scripts to detect vulnerabilities in your network or website. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to achieve endpoint protection by leveraging Python packages, along with how to write forensics and cryptography scripts.

This book would be ideal for network engineers, system administrators, and any security professional looking at tackling networking and security challenges. Security researchers and developers interested in going deeper into Python and its networking and security packages also would make the most of this book.

, Working with Python Scripting , introduces you to the Python language, object-oriented programming, data structures, a methodology for developing with Python, and development environments.

, System Programming Packages , teaches you about the main Python modules for system programming, looking at topics inclusing reading and writing files, threads, sockets, multithreading, and concurrency.

, Sockets Programming , gives you some basics on Python networking using the socket module. The socket module exposes all of the necessary pieces to quickly write TCP and UDP clients, as well as servers for writing low-level network applications.

, HTTP Programming , covers the HTTP protocol and the main Python modules, such as the urllib standard library and the requests package. We also cover HTTP authentication mechanisms and how we can manage them with the requests module.