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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)

Source of information

The various log sources will help you to provide security events in different respects. Here are some of the general recommendations of the security monitoring focuses:

Source of information

Security monitoring focuses

Application logs

These are the operational and error logs generated by the application. If the application is a web service, the logs may be included in Apache or nginx logs:

  • Monitor the user activities, especially those activities that involve access to sensitive data
  • Monitor the major changes of user profiles, such as login IPs, abnormal endpoint devices, non-browser connection clients, and concurrent connections from different IP sources
  • Monitor the activities of administration and service accounts
  • Monitor login failures and web errors, such as 401, 404, and 501

Host security,

database logs

These mainly rely on the...