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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)

Summary

We discussed security architecture design principles including the clarification of security by design and privacy by design. Security by design is focused on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) and design by privacy is more about the protection of privacy data. The industry-standard CSA, Google, PCI, or NIST provide good references. We can also refer to the OSA cloud computing pattern to understand the whole security architecture of a cloud service.

To build a security framework, we list some open source security frameworks to achieve some security controls instead of reinventing the wheel. For example, there is Spring Security and Shiro for web security frameworks in Java, and the Password Framework for NodeJS.

When it comes to website privacy protection, we discussed what is required legally, such as copyright notices, cookies, disclaimers, and data protection...