Beginning my programming/scripting path


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Beginning my programming/scripting path
# 1  
Old 11-26-2019
Beginning my programming/scripting path

Hey all,
I am senior network security admin and started my cyber security master study 2 month ago. I definitely believe in my network and network security skills therefore want to mostly hardening cyber qualities. Along with cyber security I am really interested in programming which I believe will benefit my Cyber career very much. I have already started learning BASH Scripting and after some time I will try learning Python because these 2 are only ones which really catch my interest.
As you known learning and practicing are different things. Me personally usually get mostly from practicing. Therefore I would like to find any source like with task and answers in other page which can challenge me with BASH Scripting exercises so that I can work on them. Do you know any website which can I get benefit from?

Thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 11-26-2019
You should first ask yourself what you intend to accomplish coding for cybersecurity.

It is a bit backwards to start with your preferred shell scripting language and then go look for example code that fits your favorite programming languages.
# 3  
Old 11-26-2019
@Neo

Quote:
It is a bit backwards to start with your preferred shell scripting language and then go look for example code that fits your favorite programming languages.
Sorry, did not understand you properly. Am i on the wrong way? May you clarify Smilie I do now want to look at any programming codes. I still want to increase my bash skills.

Quote:
You should first ask yourself what you intend to accomplish coding for cybersecurity.
For now, I do not want realted to cybersecurity. Just want to increase my scripting skills. For now, I only wrote couple little scripts and for instance with last script I learned what is awk and how I can use it. Therefore I am asking a guides where I can find tasks so that I can start writing answer for them.
# 4  
Old 11-26-2019
You mentioned in your first post that you are a "senior network security admin and started my cyber security master study 2 month ago" so if true, then you should already have some ideas of what you want to do on a server to help with cybersecurity.

I'm confused, sorry.

You said you are a "senior network security admin and started my cyber security master study 2 month ago" and you cannot think of a single or series of projects to code for the systems you are doing "security admin" work every day, now?

What systems are you working as a ""senior network security admin" on now?
# 5  
Old 11-26-2019
@Neo

I am working with NGFW, Web Application Firewall, Web Security Appliance, Email Security Appliance, NAC taking into consideration only security devices.

I think to have ideas what will i do in future regarding cybersecurity and what I am asking right now are different things. I am just asking that I want to harden my shell scripting skills and wonder if there any sites where I can find sample tasks for working on them and learning.
# 6  
Old 11-26-2019
Cybersecurity is primarily focused on three very broad areas:
  1. Confidentiality
  2. Integrity
  3. Availability

Which one of these three main areas are you most interested in?
# 7  
Old 11-26-2019
I understood that your scripting ambition has nothing or little to do with your security skills.

I wonder if you really have no task, you wish to automate. I had plenty of needs for this at any time of my jobs. You may think about this. Maybe there are definitely tasks, that are good to be done.

If there's nothing you're at the right place at unix.com.

Just look at the past and present requests and try to (re-)solve them on your own.

If you're ready for more, choose a random task/Project and do it or maybe pick up an interesting shell script project (github? ...) try to understand and improve it.

Last edited by stomp; 11-26-2019 at 02:34 PM..
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

How to use sed to insert character in the beginning of file path?

I need to manipulate one Database file on Solaris 11 in which contains more than 5000 lines of data file path like this: '/data1/oradata/DBNAME/system01.dbf', '/data7/oradata/DBNAME/undotbs1_01.dbf', '/data1/oradata/DBNAME/sysaux01.dbf', '/data28/oradata/DBNAME/userdata01.dbf', ... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: duke0001
6 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

shell programming and scripting

hi, i am trying this while loop and i only want that it should only read food as pizza....no other entry should be taken here. #!/usr/bin/perl -w $food = " "; while ( $food ne 'pizza' ) { print 'enter what you had last night: '; chomp ($food = <STDIN>); #print $food ; } ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kullu
2 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

shell programming and scripting

I was trying out some new series to get it print 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 and the seond one is 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 but was unable to get the result. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: harjinder
5 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

shell scripting and programming

RCS file: /home/rcap/.APCVS/regs/rc/power/analysis/pow_rtl/renes_setup.g,v Working file: ./power/analysis/pow_rtl/renes_setup.g head: 1.14 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: br_2010_101_200: 1.13.0.12 br_2010_101_100: 1.13.0.10 br_2009_91_200:... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: harjinder
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, How do I code a password with multiple special characters in it. Example: password is P#utar&@ None of the belwo options worked 1. passwd="P#utar&@" 2. passwd='P#utar&@' Any help will be greatly appreciated. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: afredri
3 Replies

6. Infrastructure Monitoring

Shell Programming and Scripting

# set date to your spec: this is month/day/yr/hr/min/sec: sysdate=`date '+%m/%d/%Y-%H:%M:%S'` # get the last line before the history file is modified tail -1 /tmp/hosthistory.txt |while read lastdate mydevices do echo $lastdate echo $mydevices done LIST = 'ypcat hosts|| sort... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: lemseffert
11 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Iam having file1 as follows: ERTYUIOU|1234567689089767688 FDHJHKJH|6817738971783893499 JFKDKLLUI|9080986766433498444 FILE2 ERTYUIOU|1234567689089767688 resh@abc_com 767637218328322332 893589893499 asdsddssd ... (21 Replies)
Discussion started by: nivas
21 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to compare some files. say iam having 2 sets of files ,each is having some 10 files. ie, file1 1a.txt 1b.txt 1c.txt ... file2 2a.txt 2b.txt 2c.txt ... i need to read line by line of this files parralley.. ie.. i want to read file1 first line that is 1a.txt and file2... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nivas
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, iam having the file as follows: ABCDEFGH|0987654321234567 ABCDEFGH|0987654321234523 ABCDEFGH|0987654321234556 ABCDEFGH|0987654321234545 POIUYTRE|1234567890890678 POIUYTRE|1209867757352567 POIUYTRE|5463879088797131 POIUYTRE|5468980091344456 pls provide me the split command ... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: nivas
14 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Beginning for shell programming and scripting

I just did a quick search for 'script' and browsed the Shell Programming and Scripting Q & A category, but didn't spot a thread that might help me. I'm wanting to get into shell programming and scripting (including automating a lot of manual processes, i.e. renaming files, replacing characters... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: HLee1981
4 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question