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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)

Privacy requirements for GDPR

The GDPR is a regulation in EU law on privacy data protection that came into effect in May 2018. We need to be aware of and also plan for it, since the GDPR defines Data Privacy regulation. It's not just a guideline or best practice. The GDPR is an official regulation that must be followed across the EU.

Here we will walk through some key steps for GDPR self-assessment and security requirements related to software applications. There are four major steps, as follows:

Key step
Checklist
  1. GDPR compliance

GDPR compliance is a must if one of the following conditions is met:

  • Firms located in the EU
  • Firms offer free or paid goods or services to EU residents (firms not located in EU)
  • Firms monitor the behavior of EU residents (firms not located in, or offering goods or services to, the EU)

The GDPR official site includes lots of resources...