Practical Security Automation

Your one stop guide to automating infrastructure security using DevOps and DevSecOpsKey FeaturesSecure and automate techniques to protect web mobile or cloud servicesAutomate secure code inspection in C++ Java Python and JavaScriptIntegrate security testing with automation frameworks like fuzz BDD Selenium and Robot FrameworkBook DescriptionSecurity 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.What you will learnAutomate secure code inspection with open source tools and effective secure code scanning suggestionsApply security testing tools and automation frameworks to identify security vulnerabilities in web mobile and cloud servicesIntegrate security testing tools such as OWASP ZAP NMAP SSLyze SQLMap and OpenSCAPImplement automation testing techniques with Selenium JMeter Robot Framework Gauntlt BDD DDT and Python unittestExecute security testing of a Rest API Implement web application security with open source tools and script templates for CI/CD integrationIntegrate various types of security testing tool results from a single project into one dashboardWho this book is forThe book is for software developers architects testers and QA engineers who are looking to leverage automated security testing techniques. About the Author Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu is a senior security architect software development manager and project manager with more than 20 years' experience in security services technology. He has extensive experience of the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) in relation to activities including secure architecture/design review secure code review threat modeling automated security testing and cloud service inspection. He is also an in-house SDL trainer having offered hands-on courses totaling in more than 300 hours. He is also the author of Hands-on Security in DevOps and a co-author of several Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) projects including the OWASP testing guide a proactive control guide deserialization cryptographic and the XXE prevention cheatsheet.