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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced secure Android development practices, such as secure coding guidebook, security best practices, and the OWASP mobile security testing guide. Based on these secure implementation and testing practices, we also illustrated some automated scanning tools. The Fireline is used to scan the Java source code for security issues. The Androwarn is specific for privacy and sensitive information scan. The QARK and MobSF are the integrated Android security scan frameworks that can do the reverse of APK and secure code scanning.

We also illustrated the secure code review patterns for Android applications. There are some high-risk APIs that may result in serious security issues. We categorized the security issues into SQL injection, insecure SSL handling, command injection, webview XSS, insecure files I/O, and the insecure communication. In addition, we...