The first stop for your security needs when using Go, covering host, network, and cloud security for ethical hackers and defense against intrusion
Key Features
First introduction to Security with Golang
Adopting a Blue Team/Red Team approach
Take advantage of speed and inherent safety of Golang
Works as an introduction to security for Golang developers
Works as a guide to Golang security packages for recent Golang beginners
Book Description
Go is becoming more and more popular as a language for security experts. Its wide use in server and cloud environments, its speed and ease of use, and its evident capabilities for data analysis, have made it a prime choice for developers who need to think about security.
Security with Go is the first Golang security book, and it is useful for both blue team and red team applications. With this book, you will learn how to write secure software, monitor your systems, secure your data, attack systems, and extract information.
Defensive topics include cryptography, forensics, packet capturing, and building secure web applications.
Offensive topics include brute force, port scanning, packet injection, web scraping, social engineering, and post exploitation techniques.
What you will learn
Learn the basic concepts and principles of secure programming
Write secure Golang programs and applications
Understand classic patterns of attack
Write Golang scripts to defend against network-level attacks
Learn how to use Golang security packages
Apply and explore cryptographic methods and packages
Learn the art of defending against brute force attacks
Secure web and cloud applications
Who this book is for
Security with Go is aimed at developers with basics in Go to the level that they can write their own scripts and small programs without difficulty. Readers should be familiar with security concepts, and familiarity with Python security applications and libraries is an advantage, but not a necessity.
John Daniel Leon is a security expert and developer residing in Houston, TX who currently works at IBM Cloud as the Application Security Architect. John maintains DevDungeon, a virtual hackerspace for developers and security experts. He has been programming from a young age and has a B.S. in Computer Science from University of North Texas. He spoke at GopherCon 2016 about packet capturing. John is a polyglot programmer with a strong interest in Python, Go, and Java. Outside of programming and security, he has a background in music theory, performance, and plays violin and guitar.
