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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)

Tool evaluation

Once the team realizes the importance and the challenge of secure coding, it will look for some tools to make the secure coding easier. The evaluation of a scanning tool may include the following considerations:

Considerations

Description

Usability

  • The target users of the code scanning tools are developers. The usability includes the capability to scan parts of the source code, differential scans, scanning reports, tracing back to original source code, and so on.

Budget

  • If it's an IDE plugin commercial tool, we need to consider how many concurrent users' licenses it will need.

Programming languages support

  • Most tools support C/C++ and Java, but do not support script languages, such as Python, JavaScript, or PHP.
  • Do a survey of the programming languages used by in-house projects and prioritize the programming languages that...