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Security Automation with Ansible 2

You're reading from   Security Automation with Ansible 2 Leverage Ansible 2 to automate complex security tasks like application security, network security, and malware analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788394512
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Akash Mahajan Akash Mahajan
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MADHU AKULA MADHU AKULA
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Ansible Playbooks and Roles FREE CHAPTER 2. Ansible Tower, Jenkins, and Other Automation Tools 3. Setting Up a Hardened WordPress with Encrypted Automated Backups 4. Log Monitoring and Serverless Automated Defense (Elastic Stack in AWS) 5. Automating Web Application Security Testing Using OWASP ZAP 6. Vulnerability Scanning with Nessus 7. Security Hardening for Applications and Networks 8. Continuous Security Scanning for Docker Containers 9. Automating Lab Setups for Forensics Collection and Malware Analysis 10. Writing an Ansible Module for Security Testing 11. Ansible Security Best Practices, References, and Further Reading

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning. Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The harden.yml performs hardening of MySQL server configuration" A block of code is set as follows:

- name: deletes anonymous mysql user
mysql_user:
user: ""
state: absent
login_password: "{{ mysql_root_password }}"
login_user: root

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

- name: deletes anonymous mysql user
mysql_user:
user: ""
state: absent
login_password: "{{ mysql_root_password }}"
login_user: root

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Click on Confirm Security Exception and continue to proceed with the installation steps"

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.
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