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Python

Posted by Jeremy Cornwell
Jeremy Cornwell
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Python tools to utilize for cyber security?

I'm learning python in preparation for my cyber security program and was wandering what packages/IDEs/other tools people think I should spend time with.

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michael7williams
michael7williams
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michael7williams
michael7williams
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Hi Jeremy.

My Python preferred editor is PyCharm. There's a community edition that's free and fairly easy to use. I would recommend checking out BeautifulSoup4 and the Requests library. If you're going to get into security and the web with Python, you're going to need to get familiar with those. There are a lot of other modules out there.. but I can definitely recommend at least Requests.

Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,011 Points

Hi Jeremy

When you say cyber security I take it you mean Pen testing?. For Pen testing and ethical hacking you would need to get familiar with Kali linux and things like Tor, proxychains,nmap etc

Jeremy Cornwell
Jeremy Cornwell
11,106 Points
Jeremy Cornwell
Jeremy Cornwell
11,106 Points

I'm already using Kali. One of the professors suggested python as being the language to learn so I was looking for tools for it. From a gray hat book, Eclipse and PyDev were suggested and I was just curious if anyone had other opinion. I'm checking into BeautifulSoup4 and the Requests library so thank you for those suggestions.