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Security Automation with Ansible 2

Security automation is one of the most interesting skills to have nowadays. With over 750 automation modules, Ansible makes it easy for you to secure any part of your system—be it setting firewalls, providing authentication to users and groups, or setting custom security policies. It allows you to write automation procedures once and use them across your entire infrastructure. This book will teach you the best way to use Ansible for seemingly complex tasks by using the various building blocks available and creating solutions that are easy to teach others, store for later, perform version control on, and repeat.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

12h8m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you are a system administrator or a DevOps engineer with responsibility for finding loop holes in your system or application, then this book is for you. It’s also useful for security consultants looking to automate their infrastructure’s security model.

Book content

chapters 12h8m total length

Introduction to Ansible Playbooks and Roles

Ansible Tower, Jenkins and other automation tools

Setting up a hardened WordPress with encrypted automated backups

Log monitoring and server-less automated defense (ELK in AWS)

Automated Web Application Security Testing using OWASP ZAP

Vulnerability Scanning with Nessus

Security Hardening for applications and networks

Continuous security scanning for Docker containers

Automating lab setups for forensics collection, malware analysis

Writing an Ansible module for security testing

Ansible security best practices, references and further reading

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