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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)

Summary

We discussed security requirements in four areas. We provided samples of how to define security release gates for each development stage, such as design, coding, build, testing, delivery, and monitoring. CVSS evaluation is also suggested whenever there is a dilemma: whether to go for the next release or not.

For a product manager to plan security features, we recommend OWASP ASVS. Depending on the business scenario, there are three levels of security. Based on the OWASP ASVS, an open source OWASP Security Knowledge Framework was introduced to help an organization to set up an in-house security knowledge portal.

For data security and privacy, we discussed the security requirements for big data.

For big data requirements, the CSA defines four security categories: such as Infrastructure Security, Data Privacy, Data Management and Integrity, and Reactive Security. In addition...