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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)

Case study – website privacy inspection

Here we will look at how to identify vulnerabilities in private information when a web service goes live.

The insecure design of a website may result in the leaking or interception of private information. One of the most common ways in which information leakage can occur is by the use of insecure communication protocols, such as HTTP, Telnet, or FTP. These protocols are communicating messages without any encryption. The web administrator will need an automatic privacy scanning tool to do see whether this is an issue affecting them.

Here we introduce the use of PrivacyScore. It provides the following privacy inspections:

Privacy scan scenarios

Examples

No Track:

No Browsing histories tracked by websites and third parties

  • Checks whether third-party embeds are being used
  • Checks whether Google Analytics is being used...