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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)

Fuzz testing and data

FuzzDB, Seclist, and Big List of Naughty Strings are data input sources for security fuzz testing. Here, we will introduce how to dynamically generate your own security payloads for fuzz testing based on needs. Fuzz testing is a testing technique used to explore unexpected data input that can cause potential security issues such as buffer overflows, unhandled exceptions, or data injection attacks. Fuzz testing requires a massive systematic random data input, called a fuzz, to test the target application in an attempt to make it crash or go out of service.

The following diagram shows the relationship between the fuzz data, testing tools, and ZAP in web security. We will demonstrate the uses of Radamsa to generate testing data, and illustrate how to apply data-driven testing (DDT) techniques and testing tools to send fuzz data for web security testing. OWASP...