Fundamental Fledgling

Programming Essentials for Information Security Professionals

This series will cover a variety of programming technologies.

• Introduction to an IDE
• Python
• Bash
• Python debugger

Session 0x01

• General overview of PyCharmEDU

  • A few examples

• Highlight some features of the PyCharm IDE

  • Project files and Structure
  • Database connectivity
  • markdown support (plugins)
  • Project settings (interpreter, debugger)

• Demo the following.. this highlights a general process and workflow

  • Markdown support (plugin)
  • Reading lines from a file
  • Writing lines to a file
  • Socket client
  • Adding features
    • import sys
    • option parser
    • send file data to server (line by line)

• Setup Run/Debug Configuration

  • Set a few break points
  • Step through the execution of a script
  • Set a variable
  • Profile our script

Resources

PyCharm Edu

• https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/

Run/Debug Configuration

• https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2017.1/run-debug-configuration-python.html

Markdown

• https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

PEP 8, Style Guide for Python Code

• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Session 0x02

TODO: WIP

• A basic RSS reader

• Using an API (Twitter)

• Working with an SQLite DB

• Exploring the IPy package

  • Class and tools for handling of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and networks

• More on debugging

  • Using file watchers

• Sysadmin related tasks/scripts

Session 0x03

TOD: WIP

• OSSEC parser
• HIBP API