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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 security testing

As we have discussed the general security-testing plan, it's also suggested to prepare security-testing instructions based on the specific domain. Each domain requires different kinds of security-testing tools and approaches. Generally, there are the web, virtualization, firmware, big data, privacy, and IoT security domains.

Web services are the most common presentation of applications and cloud services. Almost all the cloud services are presented with Web UI, which can be easily managed by any browser without installing a client application. Besides, the restful API communication that is used for inter-services communication is also built on top of HTTPS. The web security can be seen as the foundation of cloud services. When it speaks to web security, we have to be familiar with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10, which lists the...