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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

Summary

This chapter touched upon various use cases for application and network security. By combining various tools with the power of Ansible playbooks, we created powerful workflows for security automation in this space. Based on requirements, you may use benchmarks in order to enable secure defaults or periodic checks for compliance and fulfill audit requirements. We looked at tools that allow us to do the same for AWS Cloud as well. From application security scanners to approaches to doing software updates and patches in a secure configuration-driven manner, we tried to cover a wide variety of tasks that are made powerful by Ansible automation.

In the next chapter, we will focus on one of the most exciting emerging areas of IT and operations, that is, containers. Docker being synonymous with containers has become a widely deployed technology for developers, system administrators, and a core part of the modern software development and deployment pipelines. Let's explore what does Ansible...