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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

Vulnerability Scanning with Nessus

Scanning for vulnerabilities is one of the best understood periodic activities security teams take up on their computers. There are well-documented strategies and best practices for doing regular scanning for vulnerabilities in computers, networks, operating system software, and application software:

Basic network scans
Credentials patch audit
Correlating system information with known vulnerabilities

With networked systems, this type of scanning is usually executed from a connected host that has the right kind of permissions to scan for security issues.

One of the most popular vulnerability scanning tools is Nessus. Nessus started as a network vulnerability scanning tool, but now incorporates features such as the following:

Port scanning
Network vulnerability scanning
Web application-specific scanning
Host-based vulnerability...

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Authors (2)

Akash Mahajan

Akash Mahajan is an accomplished security professional with over a decade's experience in providing specialist application and infrastructure consulting services at the highest levels to companies, governments, and organizations around the world. He has lots of experience in working with clients to provide innovative security insights that truly reflect the commercial and operational needs of the organization, from strategic advice to testing and analysis to incident response and recovery. He is an active participant in the international security community and a conference speaker both individually, as chapter lead of the Bangalore chapter of OWASP the global organization responsible for defining the standards for web application security and as a co-founder of NULL India's largest open security community. Akash runs Appsecco, a company focused on Application Security. He authored the book Burp Suite Essentials published by Packt Publishing in November 2014, which is listed as a reference by the creators of Burp Suite.

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AKULA

Madhu Akula is a cloud native security researcher with extensive experience in cloud, containers, Kubernetes, and automation security. He frequently speaks and trains at security conferences around the world, including DEFCON, BlackHat, USENIX, Github, OWASP Appsec, AllDayDevOps, DevSecCon, Nullcon, and c0c0n. His research has identified vulnerabilities in 200+ companies and products like Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Wordpress, Ntop, and Adobe. He is a co-author of Security Automation with Ansible 2, a book that is listed as a technical resource by Red Hat. Madhu is an active member of international security, DevOps, and CloudNative communities and holds industry certifications like OSCP and CKA.

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