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Security Automation with Ansible 2

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

AKULA

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Introduction to Ansible Playbooks and Roles

2. Ansible Tower, Jenkins, and Other Automation Tools FREE CHAPTER

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

Chapter 11. Ansible Security Best Practices, References, and Further Reading

Last chapter. We have finally got here. Time to reflect on what we have learned together. Time to list where you should head from here. Most importantly, there are a few topics that will enhance your experience of working with Ansible.

Some of the topics we'll cover in this chapter are as follows:

Working with Ansible Vault and why you should be storing all your secrets inside the vault
Using Ansible Galaxy for sharing playbooks and roles
Securing the master controller
Additional references
Looking forward to what's new and upcoming in Ansible 2.5

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Authors (2)

Akash Mahajan

Akash Mahajan

Akash Mahajan is an accomplished security professional with over a decade's experience in providing specialist application and infrastructure consulting services at the highest levels to companies, governments, and organizations around the world. He has lots of experience in working with clients to provide innovative security insights that truly reflect the commercial and operational needs of the organization, from strategic advice to testing and analysis to incident response and recovery. He is an active participant in the international security community and a conference speaker both individually, as chapter lead of the Bangalore chapter of OWASP the global organization responsible for defining the standards for web application security and as a co-founder of NULL India's largest open security community. Akash runs Appsecco, a company focused on Application Security. He authored the book Burp Suite Essentials published by Packt Publishing in November 2014, which is listed as a reference by the creators of Burp Suite.

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AKULA

AKULA

Madhu Akula is a cloud native security researcher with extensive experience in cloud, containers, Kubernetes, and automation security. He frequently speaks and trains at security conferences around the world, including DEFCON, BlackHat, USENIX, Github, OWASP Appsec, AllDayDevOps, DevSecCon, Nullcon, and c0c0n. His research has identified vulnerabilities in 200+ companies and products like Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Wordpress, Ntop, and Adobe. He is a co-author of Security Automation with Ansible 2, a book that is listed as a technical resource by Red Hat. Madhu is an active member of international security, DevOps, and CloudNative communities and holds industry certifications like OSCP and CKA.

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