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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)

Operation goal/metrics

Based on the SAMM, operational goals can be categorized into three functions: are issue management, environmental hardening, and operational enablement. Let's discuss some of the best practices in each function.

Issue management

Issue management here means how security incidents, vulnerability issues, or security breaches are handled. There should be a vulnerability process in place that involves both the DevOps and Dev team.

In an organization-level security assurance program, it's a must to define security incident and vulnerability response processes and also root cause analysis templates. NIST SP800-61 is a good reference for an organization to establish a security incident response process...