Network analysis with Python modules

A Python script with the right modules can be a mature and powerful network technician. Python has a place in every layer of abstraction you can think of. Do you need just a quick and dirty service to be the frontend for some task such as downloading files? Python has your back. Do you need to get nitty-gritty with low-level protocols, scripting out specific packet manipulation activities nested in conditional logic, chatting with the network at layer 3, and even down to the data-link layer? Python makes this fun and easy. The best part is the portability of any project you can imagine; as I mentioned, you will be functioning on a team as a pen tester, and there are few situations in which you will function all alone. Even if you are on a project where you’re working as a lone wolf, white hats are there to inform the client, and there are no trade secrets or magician’s code, so you may be asked to lay out in understandable terms how...