This course runs for a duration of 4 days.
The class will run daily from 10 AM ET to 6 PM ET.
Class Location: Virtual LIVE Instructor Led - Virtual Live Classroom.
Geared for experienced security professionals, this class is an introductory, practical, hands-on Python training course that leads the student from the basics of writing and running Python scripts to more advanced features such as file operations, regular expressions, working with binary data, and using the extensive functionality of Python modules. Extra emphasis is placed on features unique to Python, such as tuples, array slices, and output formatting. This comprehensive, practical course provides an in-depth exploration of working with the programming language, not an academic overview of syntax and grammar.
This course is tailored specifically for Security Analysts and others who wish to use Python functionality for security-related tasks such as log manipulation or forensics. This course, which addresses secure coding practices, is essential for security professionals that are performing security reviews and audits of Python applications or are supporting development teams in implementing better defenses in Python.
Course Objective:
Throughout the course students will be led through a series of progressively advanced topics, where each topic consists of lecture, group discussion, comprehensive hands-on lab exercises, and lab review. This course is “skills-centric”, designed to train attendees in core Python and web development skills beyond an intermediate level, coupling the most current, effective techniques with best practices.
Working within in an engaging, hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert Python practitioner, students will learn to:
Audience:
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.
Module 1: An Overview of Python
Module 2: The Python Environment
Module 3: Getting Started
Module 4: Flow Control
Module 5: Sequences
Module 6: Working with files
Module 7: Dictionaries and Sets
Module 8: Functions
Module 9: Sorting
Module 10: Errors and Exception Handling
Module 11: Modules and Packages
Module 12: Classes
Module 13: Regular Expressions
Module 14: The standard library
Module 15: Dates and times
Module 16: Working with the file system
Module 17: Network services
Module 18: Writing secure Python applications
Module 19: Essential, Safe DB Access
Module 20: Log File Analysis
Module 21: Security FIlters
Module 22: Packet Analysis
Module 23: Analytics
Labs Outline
Skills-Focused, Hands-On Learning: This course is about 50% hands-on lab to 50% lecture ratio, combining engaging instructor presentation, demos and practical group discussions with lab intensive, machine-based student exercises. Throughout the course students will learn to write essential Python scripts using the latest technical skills and best practices. Our Python courses include a wide range of complementary materials and labs to ensure all students are appropriately challenged – no matter their incoming skill level.
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.
