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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

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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.

Who is this book 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.

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

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Antonio Aguilar Sep 14, 2022

I ordered this book direct from Packt and found it to be a good, concise overview of the go programming language. It's not overly long, but gives enough basics for anyone to start writing the code. From there the author dives into a number of different security topics. The code examples tend to work (something that Packt has a problem with sometimes) and there aren't grammar issues or typos that I've noticed.

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Amazon Customer Feb 14, 2018

This is an excellent book that I recommend to anyone that is looking to get started with writing code in Go, not just security enthusiasts or professionals. It has a nice primer on the history of Go and its origins, and provides useful external resources for later reference.

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Robert Lavery Mar 19, 2018

"Security with Go" is an excellent resource for security-minded professionals looking to get started with the Go programming language.Although I am not an experienced Go programmer, I found this book easy to follow and fun to digest. The covered topics include basic file and network operations, cryptographic functions, SSL/TLS certificates, and web application security.This book is aimed at readers who are at least somewhat familiar with one programming language. As you read this book, you will want to get your hands dirty at a terminal by following along with the given examples. By the time you've finished the book, you'll have a small arsenal of network penetration testing software, as well as a good understanding of Go best practices and idioms.Some chapters are stronger than others: Chapter 4, "Forensics," was the weakest chapter, and left me wanting more (I would have liked to see some discussion of filesystems and the spooky things they get up to when nobody's looking.) Chapters 6 ("Cryptography") and 9 ("Web Applications") are far stronger, and I will be referring to them as references as I build more things with Go. It's very nice to have the essentials in one place with handy examples.I share much of the author's philosophy when it comes to security. Discussions in this book range from the ethics of authorized spearphishing exercises to the efficacy of obscurity as a security layer. Little of this should come as any surprise to a seasoned sysadmin, but it is worthy material for review as well as required reading for anyone beginning in the field of security research.The formatting for the book is good, but not perfect. It would be nice if the code blocks were formatted so that they didn't tend to be ever-so-slightly misaligned with the pages of the book, an effect which I found frustratingly distracting, but not to the point of unreadability.All in all, this book is worth a read if you think you'll be writing programs in Go anytime soon, or if you're a programmer who's new to information security and would like to build a powerful and flexible toolkit for security work.

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el duderino Mar 22, 2018

"Security with Go" is an excellent primer for security researchers who are new to Go, or experienced programmers who want to learn more about security topics that Go provides compelling solutions for. There are many programming languages that can be used to solve problems in the security space but a language such as Go excels at a few things that make it stand out from other, more convenient languages like Python. The ability to process and inject packets is a good example of something that Go does well and an interpreted language struggles with. I was pleased to see this area covered in detail in the book. The recipes included in this book will be useful to individuals working in the security space. Many of the use cases will be valuable to penetration testers or red teams. Overall, I found this good to be a good value and I think it will be useful to those working in the security space.

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Jeff Char Aug 15, 2020

I think you learn the most by doing and mistakes. Most of the code works correctly. I didn't like the Github download that put "boring" in the src file, set up an OpenSSL. Github has a lot of hackers manipulating the code, better to write it yourself. I liked the pace, brief descriptions of how it works and jumping write into writing code, I would stay away from the Github downloads. Unfortunately most developers place their code there and Google isn't going to give you up to date software. Don't know why most of these books don't show installation until towards the end or updating modules. Think it would be helpful at the beginning and descriptions of what you are getting. Golang.org has older versions that work but you want something beyond 2012-2014 with the compiler built in.

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