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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 code scanning tools

In terms of source code scanning, there is no-one-size-fits-all solution. There are also no scanning tools that can find zero false positives with a 100% accurate detection rate. Therefore, for the same programming language, it's common that we may apply at least two scanning tools for a cross-reference check.

Here are some commonly used open-source secure coding analysis tools, as in 2018. Note that we only list open source tools here:

Tools

Background and key characteristics of the scanning tool

Retire.JS
  • Detection of vulnerable JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery, AngularJS, Node, and so on.
  • It provides the command line, grunt plugin, and also OWASP ZAP plugin for integration scanning.
Clang Static Analyzer

This provides standalone command line analysis for C, C++, and Objective C.

Flawfinder

A simple C/C++ code scanning...