Security Automation with Ansible 2

Adding scan type as an argument

If you have followed so far, you may realize that the scan that we ran is an active scan. The scanner sends attack traffic against the target in an active scan. 

Due to that fact, sometimes if the website is large, it may take a long time to finish. 

More information about active scans can be found at https://github.com/zaproxy/zap-core-help/wiki/HelpStartConceptsAscan.

We would like to add an argument for being able to provide the type of scan to run. So far we have two types:

• Active: Sends attack traffic
• Passive: Parses all the site files downloaded during the spidering phase

We start by adding this as part of the module_args:

module_args = dict(    host=dict(type='str', required=True),    target=dict(type