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NeuraLegion's developer friendly security scanner enables development teams to run dead accurate security tests on every build as part of their pipeline. False alerts and periodic infrequent scanning results in technical and security debt, as well as insecure product. But what is developer first DAST, when and how should you be integrating it into your pipelines and what should you be looking for when enhancing your security testing automation? Join this talk to get up to date.

10 min
18 Nov, 2021

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Neuralegions is a dynamic application security testing scanner designed for developers. It allows you to build the scan surface from the first unit tests, seamlessly integrating into your pipelines. With no false positives, you can trust the output to quickly detect and fix security vulnerabilities. Eurolegion provides comprehensive coverage, supporting web apps, internal apps, and APIs. It can handle client-side dynamic content and integrates with existing functional scripts. Scans are fast and can test for business logic vulnerabilities. Authenticated scans are fully supported. The biggest issue with security scanners is accuracy. Developers want to know real issues, not hyperbole. Neuralegion focuses on removing false positives automatically. It validates every finding with a full proof of concept, eliminating the need for manual validation. Full visibility of recurring and new issues is provided, along with developer-friendly remediation guidelines. Neuralegion seamlessly integrates into your pipeline, allowing developers to shift left and scan every commit or pull request.

1. Introduction to Neuralegions and Eurolegion

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Neuralegions is a dynamic application security testing scanner designed for developers. It allows you to build the scan surface from the first unit tests, seamlessly integrating into your pipelines. With no false positives, you can trust the output to quickly detect and fix security vulnerabilities. Eurolegion provides comprehensive coverage, supporting web apps, internal apps, and APIs. It can handle client-side dynamic content and integrates with existing functional scripts. Scans are fast and can test for business logic vulnerabilities. Authenticated scans are fully supported.

♪ Hey, TestJS. I'm Oli, VP here at Neuralegions Developer Focused Security Testing Scanner. Thanks for joining as we discuss accurate security testing automation for developers in the CI-CD.

Now a quick intro into Neuralegions. We're a global team of security experts and researchers creating the best dynamic application security testing scanner built to be loved by developers to test your apps, your APIs, but more importantly to also be trusted by your security.

You're releasing software faster than ever and security needs to keep up and this process needs to be owned by you, developers. We enable you to build the scan surface from the very first unit tests, running tests on every build or every pull request. This is seamlessly integrated into your pipelines, but more importantly with no false positives, so you can trust the output to make detecting and fixing security vulnerabilities really, really quick and really, really simple.

Let's take a look at what's under the hood. So sure, you know, we have a nice UI for security folk to play around with and configure scans manually. But we're built for developers to own the security testing process, as I mentioned, and if you sign up for our free account, you'll see this very, very nice UI. But you'll also immediately notice that you can run scans via the CLI repeater, installed by Docker Compose, NPM, Win, and can actually configure your scans as code. With a global YAML configuration-based files integrated into your CICD. For more info, you can obviously go and see our docs for a full command list. So you can actually stay in your terminal to manage these scans.

So how can you start automating your security testing today? Well, in terms of coverage, we've got you. With Eurolegion, you can start scanning every build for security vulnerabilities as part of your CI, whether that's against your web apps, your internal apps, or indeed against your APIs, whether that's REST, SOAP, or indeed GraphQL. Microservices and single-page applications are fully supported, whether pointing our scanner to a local or, indeed, a production URL, whether we are ingesting your API schemas or, indeed, Postman collections, or whether you're uploading your HTTP archive files, your HA files, into our engine.

This means you can really define the scope of the security test, perhaps against a single entry point or a single end point, or against a specific new feature that you've just made. These discovery methods can be run separately or, indeed, concurrently, meaning you can handle client-side dynamic content, JavaScript, and more. Are you using Selenium or, indeed, Cypress, for example? Well, you can start leveraging those existing functional scripts and get scanning with these half-files. This means your developers and QA can now start working together, treating security bugs like your functional ones without the need to be a cybersecurity expert.

Either way, scans are fast, running in minutes or hours, not days, maintaining your DevOps speed. The more you can find and fix, though, the better. We have a comprehensive list of testing categories, covering the OS top ten, the OS API top ten, the MITRE25, and indeed more. Additionally, our engine understands the context, understands the responses that we're getting back from the application server. And we can actually use this to test for business logic vulnerabilities. Not just your trivial injections, but how can our engine bypass the logic or the validation mechanisms in your applications and APIs, removing even more manual security testing and truly putting security testing into the hands of developers. Authenticated scans are fully supported to maximize coverage, whether using formal authentication or header authentication, NTLM, or indeed custom multitask authentication amongst others. We've got you covered in that respect.

2. Accuracy and Remediation with Neuralegion

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The biggest issue with security scanners is accuracy. Developers want to know real issues, not hyperbole. New Religion focuses on removing false positives automatically. Neural Edge and Scanner validate every finding with a full proof of concept, eliminating the need for manual validation. Full visibility of recurring and new issues is provided, along with developer-friendly remediation guidelines. All issues can be copied as a curl for debugging, and teams can be assigned to specific projects for scanning and global visibility. Neuralegion seamlessly integrates into your pipeline, allowing developers to shift left and scan every commit or pull request.

But I think the biggest issue with security scanners, though, is accuracy, right? Hands up if you love false alerts. Nah, I didn't think so. How much time do you spend validating issues or fixing issues from six months or a year ago? DevOps and CICD equals automation, correct? How can you do that without accuracy? Developers want to know real issues, not hyperbole.

People always talk about reducing false positives. Well, here at New Religion, we like to talk about removing false positives altogether for you automatically. Whether you're in a startup or a small organization, probably without a dedicated security team, or you might be a large enterprise organization where developers outweigh security by 50 or indeed 100 to 1. Either way, you're developing and releasing at breakneck speed with multiple builds a day, but also introducing security issues into production at the same speed too. The last thing you want to do is start introducing a bunch of false positives to your workload that needs validation, let alone not being able to actually validate your risk.

Results just get ignored, and pretty much the tool will be disabled. False positives in this manual validation of results is crippling your rapid release cycles and adds to your technical debt. Neural Edge and Scanner automatically validates every finding with a full proof of concept. With no manual validation required, your builds aren't going to be failing for no reason. This example on the right has an automatically generated screenshot of this reflective cross-site scripting security issue, which causes this pop up executable created perhaps by a malicious user. We automatically look for this reflection as part of our validation process and present it to you, confirming the issue and making sure you're not chasing your tail.

But now you know what's being reported as real. How do you fix the issues? Well, we give you full visibility of what's happening. Understand where your recurring issues are or new issues being detected. Again, fully validated automatically by the engine so you don't have to do it. Developer-friendly remediation guidelines are provided with additional resources to help you understand the issues and, more importantly, how to fix them. All requests, responses, headers are provided and all issues can be copied as a curl for debugging with a cool retest feature to execute the same attack or the same payload, making remediation quicker and easier for you, the developer. Assigning engineering teams or assets to specific projects allows you to segregate scanning and get global visibility whether that's of your scans or, indeed, your risk posture which means teams are creating the same issues then training can be provided. Look at it as secure training on the go. And all of this seamlessly integrated into your pipeline. With CICD and DevOps, we talk about shifting left. Dask has traditionally been carried out in stages 4 and 5 run by security professionals. Tools have been built for security professionals. You can start shifting left, putting Dask into the hands of developers with Neuralegion. Scan every commit or pull request, get immediate feedback of the issues, no false positives to start fixing now. We have integrations with all your common tools or better still use our API and integrate. Juror tickets can be opened, messages sent to relevant colleagues in Slack, collaboration is seamless, easy, and accurate. So, what are you waiting for? Sign up for a free account and you can be up and scanning in minutes. Connect with us, see our docs for more info.

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