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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)

Case study – a matrix, functional, or taskforce structure

John, the CSO of a cloud software application provider, is planning the security team structure in an organization. The existing security team consists of a secure design team, a secure coding team, and a testing team. The secure design team is in charge of threat modeling, the secure framework, and secure design guidelines. The secure coding team is providing secure coding tools and a checklist for development teams. The secure testing team is doing security verification for every service release. On the other hand, the CSO, Peter, manages the software development team (including developers, QA, and operation members).

Both Peter and John know security is an expert knowledge and that is better to have a dedicated security team to allow the security knowledge to apply across projects and also to enable members to...