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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)

Secure Coding Best Practices

Secure architecture design and threat modeling are followed by the secure coding phase. In the coding phase, we would like to avoid the use of unsafe APIs, buffer overflow, sensitive information leakage, and so on. It's difficult for every developer to be familiar with all secure coding rules. Therefore, how to apply secure coding tools and tips to spot major security issue will be discussed in this chapter.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Secure coding industry best practices
  • Establishing secure coding baselines
  • Secure coding awareness training
  • Tool evaluation
  • Tool optimization
  • High-risk module review
  • Manual code review tools
  • Secure code scanning tools
  • Secure compiling
  • Common issues in practice