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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)

Thinking like a hacker

Security testing requires a systematic approach to review an application with a comprehensive set of security-testing cases. We refer to some industry best practices and tools to plan security testing. On the other hand, we should also learn from white-hat or real hackers. The purpose of studying real threats and exploits is to review and improve the existing security testing methodologies and tools. The following sections contain some of the recommended references for real-world exploits.

Exploits and CVE

These resources provide the proof-of-concept (PoC) testing scripts and tools of CVEs. They're valuable because we may apply or customize those testing scripts to be parts of our security testing...