Security Automation with Ansible2

This repository contains all the code, playbooks, details regarding the book on Security Automation with Ansible2.

Index

Part-1: Essential Ansible for building complex playbooks

• Introduction to Ansible Playbooks and Roles
• Ansible Tower, Jenkins and other automation tools

Part-2: Security automation techniques and approaches

• 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

Part-3: Extending and programming Ansible for even more security

• Writing an Ansible module for security testing
• Ansible security best practices, references and further reading