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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)

Web readiness for privacy protection

To evaluate the privacy protection readiness for a website, include not only general web security controls but also the following major areas:

  • TLS for secure data transmission: The misconfiguration of TLS may result in insecure data transmission or man-in-the-middle attacks.
  • Referrer Policy: The Referrer Policy defines how the browser should handle Referrer information, which reveals the user's original visiting web site. The website visiting history is also considered to be personal privacy information.
  • Cookie Consent Disclaimer: To comply with the GDPR, the collection of cookie information and the use of any third-party cookies will require explicit cookie consent.
  • HTTP Security Headers: The HTTP protocol itself provides web security controls. Please also refer to the following table for the suggested HTTP security header configurations...