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Scanning web applications with GCP's Cloud Web Security Scanner

Scanning web applications with GCP's Cloud Web Security Scanner

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Scanning web applications with GCP's Cloud Web Security Scanner

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- [Instructor] Here we have Google App Engine main dashboard. And you can see here that I'm looking at this service and I have a URL here. If I go ahead and click on this Rust-based microservice, I can play around with it and I can even add, for example, a route I have that gives me random fruits. Perfect. Looks like it's working. Now, one of the things that is always scary about doing microservice development is: Have you set it up in a way that has introduced a security hole? And one of the ways that you can look for this automatically using the Google Cloud platform is to use the web security tool. So there's actually a tool called Web Security Scanner here. And in fact, I could just copy this URL right here and we can go to the Web Security Scanner, and I could actually go ahead and say a new scan. And in this case, if I go through here, we could in fact check if it's different. And in fact, I think this is the exact same URL here. There you go. This is the same URL. And if I…

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