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Join us for a discussion about InSpec, the open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security, and policy requirements.

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• Christoph Hartmann github, twitter
• Dominik Richter github, twitter
• Gary Bright github twitter
• Paul Welch github, twitter
• Mike Fiedler github, twitter, blog
• Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog

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Show Notes

• InSpec - open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security and policy requirements.
• Inspec vs Serverspec
• Why another test framework?
• Testing
• Who are the target users of inspec?
• Security
  • List of InSpec resources
  • When do I use inspec in my infrastructure’s lifecycle?
    • Testkitchen
  • Out of compliance
• Chef Compliance
• The inspec command line interface
• Train - Transport Interface to unify communication over SSH, WinRM, and friends.

Picks

Christoph

• hardening.io

Dominik

• InSpec 1.0 - watch for it soon!

Gary

• Test Driven Cookbook Development - February 24
• Test Kitchen tutorial

Paul

• Jrnl
• Quiver Programmers Notebook
• Gauntlt Cucumber framework for security

Mike

• gnu libc vulnerability - CVE-2015-7547
  • CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
  • Dan Kaminsky’s post, A Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength
• Crystal programing language

Nathen

• Take a vacation!

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