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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 scanning toolset

Here are some open source tools that can perform security monitoring, scanning, and detection. Although your organization may have some commercial security solutions in place, these open source security detection rules can be a good reference when optimizing the existing security detection, such as the IDS/IPS, firewall, and web security.

You may find the following rules helpful to update or improve your existing firewall rules:

  • Wazuh host IDS rules: Host-based intrusion defense rules.
  • OSSEC host IDS rules: Host-based intrusion defense rules.
  • ModSecurity WAF rules: Web Application Firewall rules.
  • Suricata network IDS/IPS rules: Network-based intrusion prevention firewall rules.
  • Snort network IDS/IPS rules: Network-based intrusion prevention firewall rules.

The table lists the security monitoring tools in each category.

Category

Open source security...