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Practical Security Automation and Testing. Tools and techniques for automated security scanning and testing in DevSecOps

Practical Security Automation and Testing. Tools and techniques for automated security scanning and testing in DevSecOps

Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu

Ebook
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.
  • 1. The Scope and Challenges of Security Automation
  • 2. Integrating Security and Automation
  • 3. Secure Code Inspection
  • 4. Sensitive Information and Privacy Testing
  • 5. Security API and Fuzz Testing
  • 6. Web Application Security Testing
  • 7. Android Security Testing
  • 8. Infrastructure Security
  • 9. BDD Acceptance Security Testing
  • 10. Project Background and Automation Approach
  • 11. Automated Testing for Web Applications
  • 12. Automated Fuzz API Security Testing
  • 13. Automated Infrastructure Security
  • 14. Managing and Presenting Test Results
  • 15. Summary of Automation Security Testing Tips
  • Title: Practical Security Automation and Testing. Tools and techniques for automated security scanning and testing in DevSecOps
  • Author: Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
  • Original title: Practical Security Automation and Testing. Tools and techniques for automated security scanning and testing in DevSecOps
  • ISBN: 9781789611694, 9781789611694
  • Date of issue: 2019-02-04
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_14q4
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing