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DevSecOps: Adding Security Testing Tools to Pipelines

by Peter Mosmans

Automated security testing can be daunting to start with. This course will teach you which tools you can easily implement into your existing CI/CD pipelines and what results can be expected with each tool.

What you'll learn

You want to start implementing automated security tests into your existing CI/CD pipelines. In this course, DevSecOps: Adding Security Testing Tools to Pipelines, you’ll learn to select the right tool for the right job. First, you’ll explore several tools that can detect secrets. Next, you’ll discover how to add static and dynamic application security testing tools to pipelines. Finally, you’ll learn how to perform software composition analysis. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of automated security testing needed to properly implement automated security testing into pipelines: from automatically detecting secrets in your source code all the way to running scans against a running application.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min
Detecting Vulnerabilities in Third-party Libraries Using Software Bill of Materials and OWASP Dependency-Track
14mins
Performing Dynamic Application Security Testing Using Nikto
6mins

About the author

Peter started out in the nineties as software engineer working on internet banking applications for various European financial institutions. After developing, he moved to the role of defending and designing systems and networks for high-availability websites. Since 2004 he started specializing in breaking: pentesting complex and feature-rich web applications. Currently he leads a global team of highly skilled penetration testers as lead pentester. He is a contributor to several open-source penet... more

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