Authorized Security Assessment Toolkit

Overview

Authorized Security Assessment Toolkit is a Python-based command-line project designed to support basic defensive security review tasks in lab, internal, or explicitly approved environments.

The project focuses on three practical functions:

• Common Port Review
• Web Security Header Review
• Remediation Guidance

This repository is positioned as a portfolio project for security-minded software and IT roles. It demonstrates how to structure simple security utilities in a responsible, business-facing way.

Real-World Business Use Case

This project maps to internal security review workflows used by:

• IT administrators
• Junior Security Analysts
• Cybersecurity Students
• Internal Audit Teams
• Engineering Teams Reviewing Service Exposure

A company may need to answer questions such as:

• Which common service ports appear open on a host?
• Does a web application expose recommended security headers?
• What defensive improvements should the team prioritize?

This toolkit is intended for authorized review only and should be used only on systems you own or are explicitly permitted to assess.

Key Features

• Command-line menu for selecting assessment options
• Common Port Review for widely used service ports
• Web Security Header Review for a target URL
• Remediation Guidance based on findings
• Simple Python structure split into reusable modules

Tech Stack

• Python
• Requests
• Socket library

Project Structure

Authorized-Security-Assessment-Toolkit/
|-- main.py
|-- port_scanner.py
|-- vulnerability_scanner.py
|-- remediation_advisor.py
|-- requirements.txt
|-- .gitignore
|-- README.md