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Practical Security Automation and Testing

By : Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
Book Image

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 3 – fuzz XSS and SQLi testing with JMeter

In Case 3, we will demonstrate the same user flows as in Case 2. The key difference in Case 3 is that we will have the data input with SQL injection payloads. This will be done by using Jmeter with FuzzDB and CSV Config elements. In Chapter 13, Automated Infrastructure Security, we will also demonstrate how to do fuzz SQLi testing with selenium and Robot Framework.

Testing scenarios

After user sign-in, particularly in step 6, we will be using JMeter to send HTTP requests with FuzzDB security loads through the OWASP ZAP proxy to the target testing website, NodeGoat.

The testing steps are as follows:

  1. Sign in to NodeGoat with the username User1 and password User1_123
  2. Visit...