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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)

Security testing communication

Being able to articulate the security testing plan, execution, and results in a way that non-security team members can understand is critical to the project. This will help stakeholders understand what security testing is performed and how. Too many technical and security domain-specific terms may result in the security testing being too difficult to understand.

For example, the business objective of security is to protect the application against injection attacks. However, in the domain of security testing, 'injection attacks' may be specifically described as XML External Entity (XXE) attacks, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, command injection, and SQL injection. Use of this terminology may cause communication gaps and misunderstanding between security and non-security stakeholders.

The following table lists the security business...