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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)

Data masking

Data masking is the process of obfuscating original/sensitive data to protect it. There are five typical key scenarios that require data masking. Different tools are required based on different roles or usage scenarios:

Scenario

Involved roles

Required tools/modules

  1. The application receives data and will do data masking based on defined policies

Developer

  • Data masking modules
  • Data masking policies
  1. Define the PII data tag and access policies

DBA

  • PII metadata definition
  • PII access policies
  1. Query results with data masking based on defined PII tags and access policies

Data query users

  • Dynamic data masking
  1. The operation team may monitor and check if there is any PII in data, files, configuration, or any unstructured data

Operation team

  • PII data discovery
  1. Any PII in the logs or files must be masked before further...