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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 practices in development

The security practices of the development team consist of secure coding and secure build delivery. For the secure coding, we can have an IDE plugin do the code scanning, or we can also require security unit testing and run a static code scan of the whole project. For the secure build delivery, we need to ensure that the compiler options are configured properly and review all the dependency components for known vulnerabilities. The following diagram shows the overall security practices we can plan into the development stage. We will introduce some of the open source security tools and practices for these security activities in the upcoming sections:

IDE plugins to automate the code review

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