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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)

Threat modeling with STRIDE

The STRIDE threat model defines threats in six categories, which are spoofing, tampering, repudiation, information disclosure, denial of service, and elevation of privilege. It's normally used to assess the architecture design.

The threat STRIDE model and general security mitigation are summarized in the following table. In addition to STRIDE, it's also suggested to include privacy in the analysis:

STRIDE threats

Mitigation

Spoofing

Authentication such as credentials, certificates, and SSH

Tampering

Integrity (HASH256, digital signature)

Repudiation

Authentication, logging

Information Disclosure

Confidentiality (encryption, ACL)

Denial of Service

Availability (load balance, buffer, message queue)

Elevation of Privilege

Authorization (ACL)

Privacy (additionally included)

Data masking, access...