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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)

WebGoat with OWASP dependency check

In addition to RetireJS, we will also the OWASP dependency check to scan all the files of the NodeGoat project for known vulnerable libraries. Follow these steps for the OWASP dependency check scan.

Step 1 – prepare WebGoat environment

To better demonstrate the scanning results of the OWASP dependency check, we will use the WebGoat project instead of NodeGoat. The WebGoat project can be downloaded from Git. WebGoat is a purpose-built vulnerable web project used to practice security testing:

$ git    clone    https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat

We will also use the latest version of OWASP dependency-check, which can be downloaded here: https://bintray.com/jeremy-long/owasp/dependency...