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Hands-On Security in DevOps

By : Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
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Hands-On Security in DevOps

By: Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu

Overview of this book

DevOps has provided speed and quality benefits with continuous development and deployment methods, but it does not guarantee the security of an entire organization. Hands-On Security in DevOps shows you how to adopt DevOps techniques to continuously improve your organization’s security at every level, rather than just focusing on protecting your infrastructure. This guide combines DevOps and security to help you to protect cloud services, and teaches you how to use techniques to integrate security directly in your product. You will learn how to implement security at every layer, such as for the web application, cloud infrastructure, communication, and the delivery pipeline layers. With the help of practical examples, you’ll explore the core security aspects, such as blocking attacks, fraud detection, cloud forensics, and incident response. In the concluding chapters, you will cover topics on extending DevOps security, such as risk assessment, threat modeling, and continuous security. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in implementing security in all layers of your organization and be confident in monitoring and blocking attacks throughout your cloud services.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)

Security in continuous integration

Most of the development team's daily activities include coding, compiling/building, testing, and deployment. Our goal is to build security automation practices into these activities. In the coding stage, the development team can use IDE plugins to do security source code analysis. In the build stage, we scan for the secure hardened compiling options and the known vulnerabilities of the dependency components, as well as the secure source code for the whole project.

Once the build is ready and installed on the staging environment, more comprehensive security scanning will be performed, such as dynamic web security testing by OWASP ZAP, infrastructure configuration security, and secure communication protocols. In the production deployment, security scanning will also be performed regularly, and will be more focused on security monitoring instead...