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Automated security testing basics

Automated security testing basics

From the course: DevSecOps: Automated Security Testing

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Automated security testing basics

- [Narrator] There is a parallel between Operations at the rise of DevOps and Security where it is today. When DevOps when first was starting there was some thinking that operations was going to go away as a discipline as developers took all the responsibility away from the operations team. Infamously, it was coined as "NoOps". Now nothing could've been farther from the truth. Yes, the role of operations changed through DevOps and Ernest Mueller and I chronical this in our DevOps foundation course right here in the library. However, operations is now more important than ever. Security finds itself very much at the same crossroads. When we automate security in the software delivery pipeline we are changing the role of what security has traditionally done in the past. We're not really eliminating it. Let's take a look at the role of the Penetration Tester. A good penetration tester follows the methodology that follows these four stages: reconnaissance, mapping, discovery and…

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