Python for Security Professionals

5 - Day Classroom Training Course - 35 Contact Hours

Upcoming Schedules for Python :

Dubai	28/Jul/2024	TBA	TBA

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Center Benefits :

• Corporate Venue: Onsite only

• UAE Ministry of Education Accredited Institute

• International Curriculum

• Certified Instructors

• Computer Labs: 1 PC for each student

• Certificate of Achievement (Ministry Attestation fees apply)

• Exams: Prometric & VUE exams available (fees excluded)

Training Quality Guarantees :

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• Free Course Trial

• Free Course Repeat

• Corporate HR Investment Guarantee

• Corporate Customization

• Course Version Upgrade

Who should attend?

IT professionals who want to enhance their programming skill to next level.
Fresher IT graduates want to start career in Python programming.
Database developers and administrators.
Network and System engineers.
Software testing professionals.
Mobile and device testing professionals.

Pre-requisites

Participants need to be expert level in at least one programming language
Participants should be fully conversant with development tools - either command line or IDE (command line would be used for the training)

Participants need to have basic working knowledge of Python. Basics would be covered as a very short refresher only

Course outline

Python Installation [1 hr]

Python distributions
- ActivePython
- Anaconda
- MiniConda
Additional modules
- Pip, conda, easy_install

Python Introduction & Basics [2 hrs]

The Python interpreter
Working with command-line/IDE
Syntax
- Blocks and indentation
Python Data Types
- Lists, Tuples, sets, dict’s
Built in operators, functions and methods
Data and type introspection basics: type(), dir()
User defined functions
File I/O

CSV module [2 hr]

CSV format
Tab delimiters instead of ‘,’
Variants of CSV
Reading csv files
Dict references
Writing CSV files

JSON [2 hr]

JSON format
Field data and formats
JSON data parsed to dict’s
Modifying dict data
Writing out dict data to JSON
BSON (Binary JSON to save space, security)

Regular Expressions [1hr]

‘re’ module
Basics of Regular Expressions
Match objects
Submatches
.findall()
.subs()

Class basics [1.5 hr]

__init__
self
private vs public convention
magic functions
object creation
type of objects
inheritance, multiple inheritance

Errors & exceptions [1 hr]

Standard exception hierarchy
exception payloads
defining new exceptions
chaining exceptions
traceback objects
Assertions

Logging [2 hr]

logging module
Creating a Logger
Handler
Formatter
Filter
Logging Levels: INFO, WARN, DEBUG, ERROR, CRITICAL, FATAL
Custom Logging levels
Os logging
Multiprocess logging and synchronization

Exercises, Q&A, Discussion [1 hr]

Relational Database Interaction [2 hr]

CRUD operations
SQL
Python DB API 2.0
MySQLdb module
- connect()
- execute()
- fetch*()

Networking

Working with urls [2 hr]

Urllib2
- Urlopen
- Request object
- Urlencode, urldecode
Requests
- .get()
- .put()
- .delete()
- .head()
- .options()
- Binary response content
- Json content
- Cookies

Low-level Networking [2 hrs]

Socket module
Socket types: streaming, datagram
Protocols: TCP, UDP
Methods
- bind()
- listen()
- accept()
- connect()
- recv()
- send()
- recvfrom()
- sendto()
- gethostname()
- close()
Writing a simple client-server

Email [1.5 hrs]

Smtplib module
Email module
MIME and MIMEtypes
MIMEText
Sending atachments
Sending media

Parsing HTML [2 hrs]

BeautifulSoup module
Bs4 module
prettify()
HTML tags overview: <head>, <body>, <h1>, <a href>, <title>, <p>, ..
Tag properties
DOM
Object attributes
- .title
- .p
- .parent
- .children
- .name
- .contents
- .strings
Dict based lookup
- Soup[‘id’]
- Multi-valued attributes
.find()
.find_all()
.get()

Network discovery I [2 hrs]

Netdisco module
Discovery methods
- mDNS
- uPnP
- Plex Media Server using Good Day Mate protocol
- Logitech Media Server discovery protocol
- Daikin discovery protocol
- Web OS discovery protocol
NetworkDiscovery object
Methods
- scan()
- discover()
- get_info()
- stop()

Network discovery II [2 hrs]

Nmap tool
Nmap module
- PortScanner object
- scan()
- scaninfo()
- all_hosts()
- Host lookup nm[host]
- Iterating through all hosts
- all_protocols()
- all_tcp()
- all_udp()
- all_ip()
- .tcp(port#)

Packet Sniffers [2 hrs]

Low level sniffer using socket
Packet format
- IP header
- TCP/UDP header
Packet analysis
Packet sequencing
Filtering by packet type/packet payload
By incoming/outgoing packets
Writing a gateway sniffer
Existing Packet analyzer solutions in python

Projects [1.5 hrs]

Web vulnerability scanner
- Scan standard resources over domains/IP’s
- Investigate error codes
Exploitation
- Shellshock bash shell

Wrap-up, Discussion and Q&A [1 hr]