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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 optimization

Once the teams have been using the code scanning tools for a while, the security team may help to optimize the tools, processes, or rules based on user feedback. Here are some key factors to be optimized for a large-scale code scanning adoption:

Key factors

Suggestions

Scanning rules customization

The purpose of rules customization is to help the project team reduce false positives. The security team may help to disable some rules that don't apply to the projects or change rules that always result in false positives.

Recommendation fixes

Ideally, IDE plugins will present not only security warnings but also suggested fixes. However, if the tools you are using don't support the team, using the OWASP Security Knowledge Framework can be an alternative.

Integration

Integrate code scanning tools into Jenkins, and developers&apos...