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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 – online shopping site for automated security inspection

We will be using the vulnerable website Hackazon to demonstrate automation security testing techniques: http://hackazon.webscantest.com/. We will be using three cases to explore the testing scenario and automation techniques, which are listed in the following table:

Case scenario Security testing objective Security automation techniques
Case 1—web security testing using the ZAP REST API General web security assessments
  • ZAP active scanning mode
  • Use of the ZAP REST API
Case 2—full automation with CURL and the ZAP daemon
  • Running ZAP in daemon mode
  • Automating the ZAP REST API and CURL
Case 3—automated security testing for the user registration flow Security assessments for the user registration flow
  • ZAP security assessments with proxy mode
  • Selenium web UI automation...