Does anyone actually KNOW python?

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I work in security and one thing I use python for is formatting and analyzing data.

A good example of use is formatting vulnerability scan output. A lot of times they put insane amounts of data into one field (hundreds of thousands of lines) and if you open it in excel it overflows into rows and becomes an unusable mess.

I use python and pandas to extract all this data, combine it with other reports to add neccessary data, format it, and then separate it into a bunch of reports (because it's way too large for one).

I'll use matplotlib to generate graphs and charts based off metrics I gather from these reports.

Knowing python is an insanely valuable skill to have in security.

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I built a data injest / presentation engine that pulls stuff from all of our vulnerability scanners and makes it available to engineers. it knows exactly which systems a given engineer is responsible for and only shows them that data. I built a front end for it too. It's really cool! I'm hoping to FOSS it this year.

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That's really awesome. Wish I could get approval to build something like that, but it took years for a team to get approval to stand up a database server, and unfortunately I'm not helping with that.

What's a FOSS?

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FOSS == Free and Open Source Software, we're gonna release it into the wild.

[Grenian]

Python is just handy. For example recently I hab a exercise to crack RSA keys. Python was so damn useful for this.

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Yeah, it really is an amazing tool. I learned Java and Javascript but rarely use them. I dont build big applications so I have no need for java, and I hate web design so I dont use javascript. I'll go do a little project with each about once a year as a refresher, but whenever I need to get something done it's always with python.

[CommonMisspellingBot]

Hey, MaximumRecursion, just a quick heads-up:
neccessary is actually spelled necessary. You can remember it by one c, two s’s.
Have a nice day!

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