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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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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

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That is a lot of information to take in. Also, we have made many assumptions about the scenario. But if this spurs you into thinking about combining the various logs of your devices and servers into one central location and enabling automated alerting and defenses, we have done our job well. 

As this chapter demonstrates, security automation is a bit like plumbing. As long as we can understand how a bunch of disparate systems can be made to communicate together, we can add them to our playbooks. In many cases, Ansible will already have a module in place for us to use and get going. 

Now that we have whet your appetite for logging and attack detection, in the next chapter, let's dive into what it takes to set up an automated web security testing setup. We will pick the incredibly powerful and versatile OWASP ZAP scanner and intercepting proxy and use it to...

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