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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

Additional references

Some good online references and links for Ansible that we found during our research for this book are:

Streisand: Automated installation and configuration of anti-censorship software
Sovereign: Maintain your own private cloud using Ansible playbooks
AWX: Open source version of Ansible Tower

Streisand – automated installation and configuration of anti-censorship software

Using Ansible playbooks, Streisand can set up a cloud server full of software to bypass internet restrictions and online censorship. Tools that are set up include IPSEC-based VPN, OpenVPN, OpenConnect, Tor, and WireGuard.

Note

Get started with Streisand at https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand.

Sovereign – maintain your own private cloud using Ansible playbooks

Using Ansible playbooks, Sovereign sets up your own private cloud with open source software. This puts you in control of your data with services including email, calendar, file sync, RSS reader, Git hosting, read it later, and chat.