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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)

Environment and tool setup

The following table lists tools, environments, and their descriptions. Please also refer to the Further reading section for the relevant references:

Environment and tools Usage and references
Vulnerable website

This will be the OWASP NodeGoat project, which is a vulnerable web project written in Node.js

For the online version, go here: http://nodegoat.herokuapp.com/

For the offline version. go here: https://github.com/OWASP/NodeGoat

WebGoat This is an OWASP vulnerable project in Java
ZAP-CLI This is used to operate OWASP ZAP in console mode
ZAP This is an OWASP web security scanner
OWASP DefectDojo DefectDojo is a security tool that automates application security vulnerability management and provides security findings and metrics in a web-based dashboard
Robot Framework This is an Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) automation...