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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)

Security Requirements and Compliance

We previously discussed a security assurance program in an organization, and we will explore security requirements and compliance in this chapter. We all agree that security and privacy are essential to software release. However, it can be a challenge for a product manager to plan security or privacy features into product releases.

In this chapter, we will discuss security requirements covering four aspects: the security requirements for each release quality gate, the security requirements for general web applications, the security requirements for big data, and the security requirements for compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Some security requirements are engineering-driven, such as release gates, and some are marketing-driven, such as GDPR. This chapter provides security requirements planning guidelines by looking...