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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)

Role of a security team in an organization

The role and job scope of a security team also depend on the stage of the business. It can be part of the IT team at the beginning; a dedicated security team for infrastructure security monitoring, moving toward a specialized security function team for security tool development and security policy management; or a security testing team, and so on.

Let's look at two kinds of typical scenario to discuss the role and the scope that an organization may have. One is the security engineering team under a CTO, and the other is a dedicated CSO with full, specialized functions of a security team.

Security office under a CTO

This is a typical organization structure with the security engineering...