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This book Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python by Furqan Khan (January,2019) will help in implementing defensive techniques in your ecosystem successfully with Python.

By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired adequate skills to leverage Python as a helpful tool to pentest and secure infrastructure, while also creating your own custom exploits.

What You Will Learn

1) Get to grips with Custom vulnerability scanner development
2) Familiarize yourself with web application scanning automation and exploit development
3) Walk through day-to-day cybersecurity scenarios that can be automated with Python
4) Discover enterprise-or organization-specific use cases and threat-hunting automation
5) Understand reverse engineering, fuzzing, buffer overflows , key-logger development, and exploit development for buffer overflows.
6) Understand web scraping in Python and use it for processing web responses
7) Explore Security Operations Centre (SOC) use cases
8) Get to understand Data Science, Python, and cybersecurity all under one hood

Author Bio

Furqan Khan
Furqan Khan is a security researcher who loves to innovate in Python, pentesting, ML, AI, and big data ecosystems.

With a gold medal at both M.Tech and B.Tech, he started off as a research scientist at NITK, where he developed a web app scanner for the Ministry of IT (India). He then worked as a security researcher with Paladion Networks and Wipro Dubai exploring pentesting/exploitation space where he developed tools such as vulnerability scanner and a threat intelligence platform.

Currently, he is working with Du-Telecom Dubai as a pentesting manager. He has published and co-authored white papers and journals with Springer and Elsevier, and has also presented his research and development work at international conferences, including CoCon.