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Hands-On Security in DevOps
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Hands-On Security in DevOps

by Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
9h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Recommended security-testing tools

This can be a very broad area. Here is a typical set of security-testing tools, and we will discuss this further in later chapters. A minimum security testing scope includes the vulnerability scan, port scan, web security, fuzz testing, secure configuration, and so on. Each security testing area is suggested to use at least two security tools to cover more testing scenarios. Take a look at this table:

Security-testing area

Suggested security-testing tools

Vulnerability scan

Nessus, OpenVAS, Retina:

These are common open source tools to scan vulnerabilities of the applications, web services, and all the software dependencies.

Port scan

Nmap:

Nmap is widely used for network security scanning. ...

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ISBN: 9781788995504