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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 architecture design principles

In this section, we would like to discuss two key concepts, which are security by design and privacy by design. When we discuss security, it's more about the security controls of the whole system such as authentication, authorization, availability, accountability, integrity, and confidentiality. For privacy, it focuses specifically on privacy data or PII (personal identifiable information). Privacy protection is focused on the authorized data handling life cycle and governance.

If we categorize some security controls in general terms, you may find some differences, although there are some overlapping areas in terms of security and privacy:

Security by design
Privacy by design

Primary concerns

Unauthorized access to the system.

Authorized process of privacy data.

Principles

According to OWASP, security by design...