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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

Best practices and reference playbook projects

Ansible is powerful and flexible. People use it in many different ways, and one of the ways we can understand how to use it for security automation is to keep track of and read playbooks created for specific use cases.

Projects such as Algo, DebOps, and OpenStack are large Ansible playbook projects that are well maintained and secure by default.

DebOps – your Debian-based data center in a box

DebOps (https://debops.org) is a project created by Maciej Delmanowski. It contains a collection of various Ansible playbooks that can be used for Debian and Ubuntu hosts. This project has more than 128 Ansible roles, which are customized for production use cases and work with multiple environments.

We can see a list of available playbook services at https://github.com/debops/debops-playbooks: