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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)

Secure coding patterns for inspection

To perform a secure code scan, we must define the scanning rules based on common security issues and the programming language in question. It's fundamental to use keyword-driven expressions, regular expressions, or string operations for the scanning rules. The following table shows common risky APIs which may introduce security vulnerabilities and secure coding patterns which are indicators for potential security issues for various programming languages.

The false positive column indicates whether the search result requires further manual verification. For example, Low means that once the keyword is matched in the source code, the security issue can be confirmed without the need for further verification. Med means the identified patterns still require further verification:

Programming language

Risky API or insecure code patterns...