How Automation Testing Boost the Security
                     
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How Automation Testing 
Can Help Boost 

Security


Security testing has become an incessant requirement as the 
number of attacks and risks have increased in the virtual 
world. In order to provide security to the application, 
manual security testing won’t work as the risks are deeper 
these days. This is the reason; Automated Security testing 
has taken over. 

As a regular implementation, security testing is also 
conducted as soon as the application is made or is through 
with its development phase. However, with DevOps ruling 
the world, there has been a change in the way we perceive 
security testing. 

The ideal way to ensure security is to bring security into the 
lifecycle with the development process. In this way, the 
results would be accurate, and security attacks or threats 
won’t disrupt the application. 


To bring security to the forefront of every application, 
there is a new methodology that has evolved, i.e. 
DevSecOps. DevSecOps balances the security testing 
needs by integrating the core strengths of DevOps 
within the security testing process.

 In this methodology, security checks are done within 
the deployment and development pipelines to make 
everyone responsible for security. Hence, automated 
tests are embedded in the testing lifecycle, helping the 
security flaws to be recognized before the application is 
launched. 


Here Are The Top Best Practices For Automated Security Testing: 

1. Identifying The Vulnerabilities

Carrying out consistent checks are important. To make the 
application perform well and be vulnerability-free, it is 
suggested to break the application into segments and then 
validate them for all the vulnerabilities. This complete process 
helps in recognizing the paths and ambiguities in all aspects of 
the application. 

Loopholes and failure paths of the application’s vulnerabilities 
can be recognized extremely well by this process. There are 
several bugs and viruses that arise in the cyberspace, making 
this space hard to survive. By breaking the application into 
segments and running automated tests for every task.


Choosing The Right Tool
There are various tools and technologies in the market that are boosting 
the execution of DevOps, security, and automation. However, there is a 
dire need to choose the right tool for execution. 


Security Testing requires special behavior and methods. 
Performing automation tests for security resembles 
automation of performance or functional tests. 

Automated Security Testing also needs to fragment into 
functional security tests such as password authentication, 
generation, and specific non-functional tests against 
known strengths, weaknesses and scanning of the 
application and logic. 

The main objective is to make the parts of security testing 
break into sections and then automate the tests to 
identify the success criteria. 

Automating Security Tests


Test for Vulnerability Outbreak
The main objective behind automating security tests 
is to get the application all prepared for the possible 
outbreaks. Outlining the goals and methods, it is 
imperative to use the correct tools and frameworks 
for an eruption.


Conclusion

Automation frameworks grow better and improved test cases over time. 
Consequently, capitalizing on building a robust framework for security testing is 
indeed important for an enterprise. An end-to-end Automated Security Testing 

strategy can help in safeguarding the business-critical application.

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