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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

Web automation testing tips

Simply install and launch OWASP ZAP. Active and passive scanning can only give us a preliminary testing result for public web services. The following table contains some suggested tips to improve the testing efficiency and effectiveness for uses of web automation testing tools, such as ZAP or Arachni:

Testing tips

Description

Integration

To do automated integration, try to understand that the web security tools provide the following:

  • Headless execution mode
  • Command-line interface
  • REST API
  • Jenkins plugin (this may be optional as long as one of te preceding tools is provided)

For example, the OWASP ZAP (https://github.com/Grunny/zap-cli/) provides the ZAP CLI interface, which also helps make the integration easier.

Authorization testing

To test the guest, user, and admin permissions for every web service's URL or resources will...

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