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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)

Case Study - Security and Privacy by Design

We have discussed secure architecture and design principles, threat modeling, and secure coding practices. In this chapter, we will examine a case study to discuss the implementation of security by design and privacy by design. The case study will show us the common challenges a DevOps team may have to face when applying security practices, and how the security team may help to provide best practices, tools, a security framework, and a training kit.

The case study will begin with a security assessment by OWASP ASVS, and will further identify the required security improvements, such as authentication, authorization, session management, data input/output controls, and privacy by design. We will look at some of the suggested tools and open source security framework implementations. In addition, the third-party components will also introduce...