Pandas for Pentesters

This course provides a beginner friendly introduction to the world of data analysis using the popular Python Pandas library. You will learn the basics of Numpy and Pandas, and then analyze Wi-Fi scan data to derive interesting insights from it!

– Vivek Ramachandran

Founder, SecurityTube.net and Pentester Academy

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1. What is the Pandas for Pentesters course about?

We are now living in a Big Data world – billions of devices communicating over millions of networks and generating petabytes of data, both at rest and in transit! Security professionals now encounter Big Data in the form of large log files, network traffic captures, forensics of large images and exports from security tools and products. In this course, we will look at how to analyze, mangle, transform and visualize data to derive interesting insights and intelligence from it.

Pandas is a Python library which is part of SciPy scientific computing ecosystem. In simple terms, Pandas provides powerful data structures to perform data analysis. As dry as this might initially sound, due to the high level of abstraction provided by its powerful API, Pandas allows us to do really complicated analysis with just a few lines of Python code.

In this course, we will go through the basics of Numpy, a deep dive into Pandas Series and Dataframes and how to analyze data with it. The case study used is analysis of Wi-Fi networks using Airodump-NG’s output file for a relatively large network with hundreds of devices.

This course requires a basic working knowledge of Python.

2. Course Syllabus

A non-exhaustive list of topics to be covered include:

• Why Pandas for Pentesters?
• Lab Setup – Python, Anaconda, Jupyter
• Numpy basics
• Pandas Series
• Vector, Logical, String Operations
• Pandas Dataframes
• Filters, Operations, Apply
• Groupby, Split-Apply-Combine
• Aggregate, Transform, Filter
• Airodump-NG Scan Data
• Access Point Analysis
• Client Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Conclusion

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3. Can I see some sample videos from the course? 

The course is fully hands-on and you will be spending almost 90% of the time doing exercises with the instructor. The course starts from the very basics and slowly takes you to more complicated topics, making it ideal for self-paced learning. Below are a couple of sample videos from the course:

1. Course Introduction

2. Numpy Universal Functions

3. Split-Apply-Combine Groupby

4. Airodump-NG Scan Analysis

5. Course Conclusion

The course contains over 4+ hours of Videos where the student will be doing exercises.

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4. What do I get as a registered student? 

A registered student will get the following:

• Over 4+ hours of HD Videos
• Full English Captions for all Videos
• PDF Slides of the full course
• Course Exercise files – IPython Notebooks
• Certification Exam

Please note that there is no student forum associated with this low-priced course.

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5. What is the course duration? when does it start / stop ?

This course is completely self-paced, self-study course. There is no duration of the course or expiry period.

6. I am a student of Pentester Academy. Will this course be posted there?

We are already posting the videos of this course on Pentester Academy as they are being created.

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9. Course Instructor

Vivek Ramachandran is the Founder and Chief Trainer at SecurityTube.net. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack, broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema in 2007 publicly at Defcon and conceptualized enterprise Wi-Fi Backdoors. He is also the author of the book “Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing“.

Vivek currently runs the SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert (SWSE), the SecurityTube Metasploit Framework Expert (SMFE), SecurityTube Python Scripting Expert (SPSE) and the SecurityTube iOS Security Expert (SISE) online course and certifications which is currently being taken by students from over 90+ countries around the world. He also conducts in-person trainings in the US, Europe and Asia.

In a past life, he was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco’s 6500 Catalyst series of switches. He was also one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants. He has also published multiple research papers in the field of DDoS, ARP Spoofing Detection and Anomaly based Intrusion Detection Systems.

Vivek’s work on wireless security has been quoted in BBC online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada etc. places. He has spoken/trained at top conferences around the world including Blackhat USA and Abu Dhabi, Defcon, Hacktivity, Brucon, ClubHack, SecurityByte, SecurityZone, Nullcon, C0C0n etc.

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10. Course Enrollment and Payment