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Practical Security Automation and Testing

Practical Security Automation and Testing: Tools and techniques for automated security scanning and testing in DevSecOps

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Practical Security Automation and Testing

Integrating Security and Automation

We looked at the scope and challenges of security automation in Chapter 1, The Scope and Challenges of Security Automation. In this chapter, we will introduce how security and automation can be integrated. Since both security testing and automation testing require domain expertise and very particular tools, this chapter will introduce how to bake automation into existing security testing frameworks to improve testing coverage and efficiency. We will also discuss how security testing practices and tools can be integrated into your in-house automation testing framework.

The following topics will briefly be discussed in this chapter:

  • The domains of automation testing and security testing
  • Automation frameworks and techniques
  • Automating existing security testing
  • Security testing with an existing automation framework
...

The domains of automation testing and security testing

The domain of automation includes white-box code inspection, unit testing, acceptance testing, integration testing, API testing, and end-to-end UI testing. In terms of implementation effort, unit testing and white-box inspection usually take the least effort, while UI testing often takes the most effort, particularly in order to understand the UI business flow.

Therefore, most automated testing cases are done with unit testing or API-level testing. Automated UI testing may only cover the scenarios from a user perspective while the API testing may cover more business logic or exception handling use cases. The following diagram illustrates the different levels of automation testing and how much effort they take.

Levels of Automation Testing

On the other hand, the domain of security testing can be much broader. The following...

Automation frameworks and techniques

In this section, we will introduce some common automation testing frameworks, covering API, functional, UI, and mobile testing. Understanding the key characteristics of each automation framework will help the security team know how to integrate security testing and figure out what can be improved by automation.

UI functional testing for web, mobile, and windows

UI functional testing looks at the end user's perspective. It walks through the UI flow and verifies the response from the GUI. There are three testing target platforms: web services, mobile applications, and Windows applications. The following table lists some common open source/free automation frameworks:

Automation framework...

Automating existing security testing

If the team already have certain security testing measures in place and would like to apply an automation testing framework to improve efficiency or reduce manual execution efforts, there are some recommended automation frameworks the team may consider. The following table details the automation frameworks that may help in various kinds of security testing scenarios:

Types of automation frameworks

The scenarios where the automation framework can help

Web UI automation

(Selenium or Robot Framework)

  • User registration flow
  • Authentication/authorization flow
  • Shopping cart and order payment flow
  • Forget password flow
  • PII (Personally identifiable information ) -sensitive operations, such as profile update

API testing (JMeter)

  • RESTful API testing with injection payloads

BDD testing

Robot Framework or gauntlt

  • When a BDD...

Security testing with an existing automation framework

If the team has done some automation testing, security testing can be built on top of it. For security testing to be integrated with automation frameworks, we need to consider the input data for the tool, the support of the API or CLI to trigger the execution, and the preferred testing report format, such as JSON, XML, or CSV. In addition, in order to consolidate all the testing reports generated by various security testing tools, we will introduce OWASP DefectDojo to import all the security findings and the security dashboard presentation. Therefore, the output format of the security testing tools is also part of the security testing tool selection criteria.

The following table lists some recommended security testing tools that provide flexible interfaces for automation framework integration, and the output formats can be...

Summary

This chapter introduces the integration of security and automation. The domain of automation testing covers white-box code inspection, unit testing, API testing, integration testing, and end-to-end UI integration testing. The automation technique being used may depend on the effort required and the automation rate. The security testing domain was also explored in this chapter. We will primarily be focused on common security issues for web applications and mobile applications, such as password attacks, data validation, information disclosure, session management, and secure transmission.

We also illustrated some security testing scenarios where automation frameworks can help. For example, the Selenium Web UI framework is used to walk through the UI flow for security tools to inspect security issues. JMeter can be used with security payloads to do RESTful API security testing...

Questions

  1. Which one of these is not part of security testing domain?
    1. BDD
    2. Information gathering
    3. Data validation
    4. Cryptography
  1. Which one of the following is not used for UI functional testing?
    1. AutoIT
    2. Selenium
    3. Appium
    4. ZAP
    1. Which of the following is used for HTTP API testing?
      1. JMeter
      2. Fiddler
      3. Python requests
      4. All of the above
    2. Which of these is not the purpose of using a mock server?
      1. Reducing the dependencies of the backend web services
      2. Defining standard HTTP responses
      3. Doing UI functional testing
      4. Responding to the HTTP requests
    3. Which of these is used for known vulnerabilities scanning?
      1. OpenVAS
      2. OWASP Dependency Check
      3. RetireJS
      4. All of above
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    • Secure and automate techniques to protect web, mobile or cloud services
    • Automate secure code inspection in C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript
    • Integrate security testing with automation frameworks like fuzz, BDD, Selenium and Robot Framework

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    Security automation is the automatic handling of software security assessments tasks. This book helps you to build your security automation framework to scan for vulnerabilities without human intervention. This book will teach you to adopt security automation techniques to continuously improve your entire software development and security testing. You will learn to use open source tools and techniques to integrate security testing tools directly into your CI/CD framework. With this book, you will see how to implement security inspection at every layer, such as secure code inspection, fuzz testing, Rest API, privacy, infrastructure security, and web UI testing. With the help of practical examples, this book will teach you to implement the combination of automation and Security in DevOps. You will learn about the integration of security testing results for an overall security status for projects. By the end of this book, you will be confident implementing automation security in all layers of your software development stages and will be able to build your own in-house security automation platform throughout your mobile and cloud releases.

    Who is this book for?

    The book is for software developers, architects, testers and QA engineers who are looking to leverage automated security testing techniques.

    What you will learn

    • Automate secure code inspection with open source tools and effective secure code scanning suggestions
    • Apply security testing tools and automation frameworks to identify security vulnerabilities in web, mobile and cloud services
    • Integrate security testing tools such as OWASP ZAP, NMAP, SSLyze, SQLMap, and OpenSCAP
    • Implement automation testing techniques with Selenium, JMeter, Robot Framework, Gauntlt, BDD, DDT, and Python unittest
    • Execute security testing of a Rest API Implement web application security with open source tools and script templates for CI/CD integration
    • Integrate various types of security testing tool results from a single project into one dashboard
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    The Scope and Challenges of Security Automation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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    Sensitive Information and Privacy Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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    BDD Acceptance Security Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
    Project Background and Automation Approach Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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    Managing and Presenting Test Results Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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