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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

Automating security audit checks for networking devices using Ansible

We have seen that Ansible lends itself really well to work with a variety of tools, and we can use this to do security audit checks for networking devices.

Nmap scanning and NSE

Network Mapper (Nmap) is a free open source software to perform network discovery, scanning, audit, and many others. It has a various amount of features such as OS detection, system fingerprinting, firewall detection, and many other features. Nmap Scripting Engine (Nmap NSE) provides advanced capabilities like scanning for particular vulnerabilities and attacks. We can also write and extend Nmap using our own custom script. Nmap is a swiss army knife for pen testers (security testers) and network security teams.