Python for Cybersecurity

Python without all of the extra hogwash

Created by: Lloyd Ramsey
Cybersecurity and Web Development Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• Use Visual Studio Code with proficiency
• Create and run python files
• Create interactive python programs
• Use condition statements in python
• Use loops in python
• Write functions in python
• Understand Lists and Dictionaries in python
• Handle errors properly in python
• Write python programs that make API calls
• Create python programs that communicate over a network using sockets
• Hash Passwords
• Check Password Hashes
• Authenticate with web applications using Python
• Manipulating request headers using Python
• Automate tasks that require the use of web applications and APIs using Python
• Read from files
• Write to files
• Use json files to save data across executions
• Use json files to hide credentials from source code
• Use the logging library to log script activity
• Send emails using smtplib

Requirements

• No programming OR cybersecurity knowledge is required.

Target audience

• Those interested in python and cybersecurity. Those working in cybersecurity and would like to learn how to program. Cybersecurity students that do not have python in your curriculum.