Automate Security Scans with Continuous Integration

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500

There are many tools out there that help you get a quick idea of possible security issues in your code and dependencies, but how often do you run them? If you’re running a Rails app and have never run brakeman or bundler-audit, I strongly urge you to run these tools immediately. Brakeman finds common insecure coding patterns that might be exploitable in the correct context and bundler-audit checks for known vulnerabilities within your installed gem dependencies.

The premise of this blog post isn’t to teach you to run these tools, but rather to teach you how to implement these tools into your Continuous Integration service. If you’re curious of how to run these tools outside of the test suite, both tool’s READMEs are informative.

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Automate Security Scans with Continuous Integration