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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 requirements for the release gate

It's important to set up security quality criteria for each release stage, such as threat modeling, design, coding, testing, and deployment. The objective of the release gate is to improve the quality of security releases in each stage. When you start defining release gates, it's suggested to start with a few major or high-priority security issues, since a long checklist will result not only in overhead but also in resistance from the development or QA teams.

For the introduction of security release gates, allow the team to learn, to become familiar with the security practices, and also to make mistakes. Try to be a coach to support and help the team to meet a higher standard of security quality instead of acting like the police and inspecting deliverables.

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