From automating tedious router checks to calculating VLSM in seconds, Python is transforming how network engineers work. With the right libraries, scripts, and integration techniques, repetitive tasks ...

Use the Python Netmiko module to automate switches, routers and firewalls from multiple vendors. I frequently find myself in the position of confronting "hostile" networks. By hostile, I mean that ...

You don't have to resort to writing C++ to work with popular machine learning libraries such as Microsoft's CNTK and Google's TensorFlow. Instead, we'll use some Python and NumPy to tackle the task of ...

Black Hat Python is a clear winner in the field of books for security professionals. Written for people who want to move into the hacking and penetration testing fields and fully understand what ...

If old Python networking and web libraries aren't fast enough for you, these new additions break speed limits and unleash new possibilities Faster, simpler, more “Pythonic” — those are the rallying ...

In the first article in this series focusing on the top 5 languages for systems admins, I wrote about not being too fond of programming. To recap, it’s not because I don’t see the value behind it, ...