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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)

QA goal/metrics

In this stage of verification, the role of QA is to assess software security-related issues, code-level vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or logical errors that lead to critical security risks, and so on. OWASP SAMM-defined key security activities in the verification phases include design review, implementation review, and security testing. As we will discuss software security verification details in later chapters, here we highlight some of the key practices in this phase.

Design review

In practice, the security design review can be considered as low-level threat modeling. The following are suggested during design review:

  • Security compliance checklist
  • Security requirement checklist (OWASP ASVS)
  • Top 10 security...