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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788394512

Length 364 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Application Security

Authors (2):

Akash Mahajan

MADHU AKULA

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered how to work with Ansible Vault, using the hosted Ansible Galaxy site and even self-hosting it. We also discussed on a need for keeping the controller node safe and secure.

Apart from these topics, we also looked at some of the most comprehensive software projects that use Ansible in a variety of ways. In all these projects, Ansible is the centrepiece of their orchestration and provisioning of software and related services. The main idea of highlighting all these projects was to expand on the theme of the book and also make you aware of the sheer number of ways Ansible is being used for automation, especially around security workloads. We also looked at what is coming in the next year in terms of Ansible 2.5, and concluded that so far nothing we have covered will break when it does become stable.

We are looking forward to seeing what kinds of security automation workflows all of you are going to build after taking this journey with us.