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Hands-On Security in DevOps

You're reading from   Hands-On Security in DevOps Ensure continuous security, deployment, and delivery with DevSecOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788995504
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. DevSecOps Drivers and Challenges FREE CHAPTER 2. Security Goals and Metrics 3. Security Assurance Program and Organization 4. Security Requirements and Compliance 5. Case Study - Security Assurance Program 6. Security Architecture and Design Principles 7. Threat Modeling Practices and Secure Design 8. Secure Coding Best Practices 9. Case Study - Security and Privacy by Design 10. Security-Testing Plan and Practices 11. Whitebox Testing Tips 12. Security Testing Toolkits 13. Security Automation with the CI Pipeline 14. Incident Response 15. Security Monitoring 16. Security Assessment for New Releases 17. Threat Inspection and Intelligence 18. Business Fraud and Service Abuses 19. GDPR Compliance Case Study 20. DevSecOps - Challenges, Tips, and FAQs 21. Assessments 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Behavior-driven security testing framework

BDD security testing is very suitable when your security testing reports will be shared with external vendors, or even internal, cross-team communication to understand what security testing cases are being executed. In addition, BDD security tests can help you to integrate all of the various kinds of security testing tools and consolidate testing reports based on the framework.

Let's look at a simple example to understand what behavior-driven security testing is. Under the behavior-driven security testing framework, the security testing scripts are the testing cases that are written in a human-readable language. It makes the security testing cases, and testing results, easily understood by non-security professionals. Here is an example of this human-readable script:

Scenario: The attack may execute a system command to gain...

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