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Practical Security Automation and Testing

You're reading from   Practical Security Automation and Testing Tools and techniques for automated security scanning and testing in DevSecOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802023
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Scope and Challenges of Security Automation FREE CHAPTER 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 16. List of Scripts and Tools 17. Solutions 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Case 3 – fuzz XSS and SQLi testing with JMeter

In Case 3, we will demonstrate the same user flows as in Case 2. The key difference in Case 3 is that we will have the data input with SQL injection payloads. This will be done by using Jmeter with FuzzDB and CSV Config elements. In Chapter 13, Automated Infrastructure Security, we will also demonstrate how to do fuzz SQLi testing with selenium and Robot Framework.

Testing scenarios

After user sign-in, particularly in step 6, we will be using JMeter to send HTTP requests with FuzzDB security loads through the OWASP ZAP proxy to the target testing website, NodeGoat.

The testing steps are as follows:

  1. Sign in to NodeGoat with the username User1 and password User1_123
  2. Visit...
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