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Offensive Security Using Python

Offensive Security Using Python

By : Rejah Rehim, Manindar Mohan
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Offensive Security Using Python

Offensive Security Using Python

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By: Rejah Rehim, Manindar Mohan

Overview of this book

Offensive Security Using Python is your go-to manual for mastering the quick-paced field of offensive security. This book is packed with valuable insights, real-world examples, and hands-on activities to help you leverage Python to navigate the complicated world of web security, exploit vulnerabilities, and automate challenging security tasks. From detecting vulnerabilities to exploiting them with cutting-edge Python techniques, you’ll gain practical insights into web security, along with guidance on how to use automation to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of your security activities. You’ll also learn how to design personalized security automation tools. While offensive security is a great way to stay ahead of emerging threats, defensive security plays an equal role in protecting organizations from cyberattacks. In this book, you’ll get to grips with Python secure coding techniques to improve your ability to recognize dangers quickly and take appropriate action. As you progress, you’ll be well on your way to handling the contemporary challenges in the field of cybersecurity using Python, as well as protecting your digital environment from growing attacks. By the end of this book, you’ll have a solid understanding of sophisticated offensive security methods and be able to stay ahead in the constantly evolving cybersecurity space.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1:Python for Offensive Security
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Part 2: Python in Offensive Web Security
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Part 3: Python Automation for Advanced Security Tasks
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Part 4: Python Defense Strategies for Robust Security

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Now, I will leave it up to you to package both the network scanner and the port scanner into a library and use the libraries to write a more compact script that does a network scan and scan for open ports for each IP that is found.

Readers are recommended to follow the outlined steps to reinforce the concepts presented in this chapter. Every task designed within this activity aims to test and solidify the reader’s comprehension effectively:

  1. Package both code snippets into the library.
  2. Name your new Python file network-and-port-scanner.py.
  3. Import both libraries into the new program.
  4. Use argument parsing to obtain the IP and port ranges for scanning.
  5. Pass the IP address range to the network mapper for ARP scanning and write the IPs to a file.
  6. Read the IPs from the file and provide the discovered IP addresses with the port range to the port scanner.
  7. Print the IPs and ports into a table in a more visually appealing manner.

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