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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

Summary

Containers are rapidly changing the world of developers and operations teams. The rate of change is accelerating, and in this new world, security automation gets to play a front and center role. By leveraging our knowledge of using Ansible for scripting play-by-play commands along with excellent tools such as Archore and osquery, we can measure, analyze, and benchmark our containers for security. This allows us to build end-to-end automatic processes of securing, scanning and remediating containers. 

In the next chapter, we will look at a specialized use case for security automation. We will look at how can we improve the tasks around malware analysis by automating certain parts of it. We will especially focus on lightweight dynamic analysis workflow integrating Cuckoo sandbox, one of the most popular malware analysis tools out there. 

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