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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By : Michael Kaufmann
Book Image

Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By: Michael Kaufmann

Overview of this book

This practical guide to DevOps uses GitHub as the DevOps platform and shows how you can leverage the power of GitHub for collaboration, lean management, and secure and fast software delivery. The chapters provide simple solutions to common problems, thereby helping teams that are already on their DevOps journey to further advance into DevOps and speed up their software delivery performance. From finding the right metrics to measure your success to learning from other teams’ success stories without merely copying what they’ve done, this book has it all in one place. As you advance, you’ll find out how you can leverage the power of GitHub to accelerate your value delivery – by making work visible with GitHub Projects, measuring the right metrics with GitHub Insights, using solid and proven engineering practices with GitHub Actions and Advanced Security, and moving to event-based and loosely coupled software architecture. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have understood what factors influence software delivery performance and how you can measure your capabilities, thus realizing where you stand in your journey and how you can move forward.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1: Lean Management and Collaboration
7
Part 2: Engineering DevOps Practices
14
Part 3: Release with Confidence
19
Part 4: Software Architecture
22
Part 5: Lean Product Management
25
Part 6: GitHub for your Enterprise

Chapter 13: Shift-Left Security and DevSecOps

The total number of losses caused by cyber-crimes that have been reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has increased to an all-time high, from 3.5 billion United States dollars (USD) in 2019 to 4.1 billion USD in 2020 (IC3, 2019 and 2020). This continues the trend with a strong increase over the last years (see Figure 13.1):

Figure 13.1 – Total losses caused by cyber-crimes reported to IC3

Among the affected companies are start-ups, as well as Fortune 500 enterprises. Affected are tech giants such as Facebook, Twitter, T-Mobile, and Microsoft, as well as public institutions such as San Francisco International Airport or security companies such as FireEye. No company can claim that cyber-crimes are not a threat to them!

In this chapter, we take a broader look at the role of security in development and how you can bake it into your process and...