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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

NMAP security scan with BDD framework

The test results for NMAP may be difficult to understand and take time to interpret for non-security professionals. The purpose of integration with BDD and NMAP allows us to define the NMAP execution in plain English. In this example, we will use NAMP to execute some common web security tests with an NMAP NSE (NMAP Scripting Engine) script. Due to the execution of NMAP and the scanning results can be difficult to interpret, we will apply the Gauntlt framework to execute NMAP. Please be reminded that NAMP web security testing cannot replace a web scanner such as ZAP, due to the limitations of the security payloads and detection engine of NMAP.

NMAP For web security testing

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