Introduction To Python Programming For Security Analysts & Professionals Training

Microtek Learning's Introduction to Python Programming for Security Analysts training program offers a boost to the career of all security professionals.

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Course Overview

Microtek Learning's Introduction to Python Programming for Security Analysts training program offers a boost to the career of all security professionals.

It is an introductory class that mainly focuses on Python training. In this course, professionals will learn more advanced features of Python script.

It includes file operations, regular expressions, working with binary data, and implementation of comprehensive functionality of Python modules.

The course also emphasizes Python's unique features like tuples, array slices, output formatting, and many more.

So, reading this comprehensive course will offer in-depth knowledge of working with a programming language.

Mode of Training

🏫 Classroom 💻 Live Online 🧪 Blended 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Private Group

What you will learn

Create working Python scripts following best practices
Use python data types appropriately
Read and write files with both text and binary data
Search and replace text with regular expressions
Get familiar with the standard library and its work-saving modules
Use lesser-known but powerful Python data types
Create "real-world", professional Python applications
Work with dates, times, and calendars
Know when to use collections such as lists, dictionaries, and sets
Understand Pythonic features such as comprehensions and iterators

Who Should Attend This Course?

This course is appropriate for advanced users, system administrators and web site administrators who want to use Python to support their server installations, as well as anyone else who wants to automate or simplify common tasks with the use of Python scripts.

Prerequisites

Students are required to have some basic programming experience and exposure prior to attending this course.

Students should have basic development experience in any programming language, along with a working, user-level knowledge of Unix/Linux, Mac, or Windows.

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📘 Introduction To Python Programming For Security Analysts & Professionals Outline

What is python?
Python Timeline
Advantages/Disadvantages of Python
Getting help with pydoc

Starting Python
Using the interpreter
Running a Python script
Python scripts on Unix/Windows
Editors and IDEs

Using variables
Builtin functions
Strings
Numbers
Converting among types
Writing to the screen
Command line parameters

About flow control
White space
Conditional expressions
Relational and Boolean operators
While loops
Alternate loop exits

About sequences
Lists and list methods
Tuples
Indexing and slicing
Iterating through a sequence
Sequence functions, keywords, and operators
List comprehensions
Generator Expressions
Nested sequences

File overview
Opening a text file
Reading a text file
Writing to a text file
Reading and writing raw (binary) data
Converting binary data with struct

About dictionaries
Creating dictionaries
Iterating through a dictionary
About sets
Creating sets
Working with sets

Defining functions
Parameters
Global and local scope
Nested functions
Returning values

The sorted() function
Alternate keys
Lambda functions
Sorting collections

Syntax errors
Exceptions
Using try/catch/else/finally
Handling multiple exceptions
Ignoring exceptions

The import statement
Module search path
Creating modules and Using packages
Function and Module aliases

About o-o programming
Defining classes
Constructors
Methods
Instance data
Properties
Class methods and data

RE syntax overview
RE Objects
Searching and matching
Compilation flags
Groups and special groups
Replacing text
Splitting strings

The sys module
Launching external programs
The string module
Reading CSV data

Working with dates and times
Translating timestamps
Parsing dates from text

Paths, directories, and filenames
Checking for existence
Permissions and other file attributes
Walking directory trees
Creating filters with fileinput
Security and File Access

Grabbing web content
Detecting Malformed Input

Parsing command-line options
Getting help with pydoc
Safely handling untrusted data
Managing eval() permissions
Potential insecure packages
Embedding code snippets in Python
Embedding authentication data in Python
Potentially dangerous operations:
File access
Operating system access
Calls to external services
Called to external data sources
Static analysis tools such as Bandit

Raw log file manipulation
Fail2Ban
Customizing Fail2Ban with Python

SQL-Injection Detection
ModSecurity CRS filtering

Packet Sniffing in Python

Security Logging and Analytics
Attack Detection and Defense
Python and Spark High-Level Overview

What is Flask?
Developing a Flask Web service
Mapping resources using URLs
Mapping resources using HTTP
Negotiating data content

OWASP 2021 Top Ten Overview
Python Code Access Control
Options for Protecting Data
Injection and Python
Python and Data Validation
Python and XML Processing
Python and Known Vulnerable Components
Python and Serialization/Deserialization

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