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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-testing plan templates

The key difference between hacking and security testing is that security testing requires a comprehensive security quality assurance of the whole application, while hacking is looking for specific security issues or vulnerabilities. Creating a security-testing template will help the project team to plan security testing and maintain the quality of security testing. The following are the well-known industry best practices to build a security testing plan:

  • OWASP Testing Guide: The OWASP testing guide provides the what, why, when, where, and how of the web applications security testing.
  • PCI Penetration Testing Guidance: Instead of listing detailed testing cases and tools, the PCI penetration testing guide includes four key agenda of the testing such as Penetration Testing Components, Qualifications of a Penetration Tester, Penetration Testing Methodologies...