Book Image

Hands-On Security in DevOps

By : Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
Book Image

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)

Third-party open source management

An organization should set up its own internal open source and third-party software database and selection criteria. The database keeps records of open source or in-house developed components adopted in projects. It will provide a good framework selection reference for similar projects such as the web security framework we discussed earlier. If you are looking for an open source component search database, try Open Hub. You may search open source projects and find what you need for the project: https://www.openhub.net/. Furthermore, the open source selection criteria help to reduce legal and quality risks.

A typical criteria checklist is listed in the following table:

Selection criteria

Example and description

Does the open source community fix the security issue in a timely manner?

  • High-security risks fixed within 1 month.
...