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Practical Security Automation and Testing

By : Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
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Practical Security Automation and Testing

By: Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu

Overview of this book

Security automation is the automatic handling of software security assessments tasks. This book helps you to build your security automation framework to scan for vulnerabilities without human intervention. This book will teach you to adopt security automation techniques to continuously improve your entire software development and security testing. You will learn to use open source tools and techniques to integrate security testing tools directly into your CI/CD framework. With this book, you will see how to implement security inspection at every layer, such as secure code inspection, fuzz testing, Rest API, privacy, infrastructure security, and web UI testing. With the help of practical examples, this book will teach you to implement the combination of automation and Security in DevOps. You will learn about the integration of security testing results for an overall security status for projects. By the end of this book, you will be confident implementing automation security in all layers of your software development stages and will be able to build your own in-house security automation platform throughout your mobile and cloud releases.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Case 1 – web security scanning with ZAP-CLI

In this small NodeGoat web security testing scenario, we will automate OWASP ZAP by using the ZAP-CLI for security smoke testing. The ZAP-CLI provides a quick scan, which is handy because it achieves the following in one command:

  • Open a URL to the target website
  • Spider scan to discover web resources (URLs) extensively on the target website
  • Active scan to identify more potential security issues by using known attacks

We will perform the following steps to execute the ZAP-CLI and review the security results by

Step 1 – installation of ZAP-CLI

Assuming you have installed OWASP ZAP, the installation of the ZAP-CLI can be easily done with this command:

$ pip install ...