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Implementing DevSecOps Practices

By : Vandana Verma Sehgal
Book Image

Implementing DevSecOps Practices

By: Vandana Verma Sehgal

Overview of this book

DevSecOps is built on the idea that everyone is responsible for security, with the goal of safely distributing security decisions at speed and scale to those who hold the highest level of context. This practice of integrating security into every stage of the development process helps improve both the security and overall quality of the software. This book will help you get to grips with DevSecOps and show you how to implement it, starting with a brief introduction to DevOps, DevSecOps, and their underlying principles. After understanding the principles, you'll dig deeper into different topics concerning application security and secure coding before learning about the secure development lifecycle and how to perform threat modeling properly. You’ll also explore a range of tools available for these tasks, as well as best practices for developing secure code and embedding security and policy into your application. Finally, you'll look at automation and infrastructure security with a focus on continuous security testing, infrastructure as code (IaC), protecting DevOps tools, and learning about the software supply chain. By the end of this book, you’ll know how to apply application security, safe coding, and DevSecOps practices in your development pipeline to create robust security protocols.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1:DevSecOps – What and How?
3
Part 2: DevSecOps Principles and Processes
8
Part 3:Technology
15
Part 4: Tools
17
Part 5: Governance and an Effective Security Champions Program
20
Part 6: Case Studies and Conclusion

Resolving issues without breaking the build

Resolving issues without breaking the build is an important aspect of integrating SAST into the development process. We need to make sure that when we help developers identify any critical issue in the build with the DevSecOps process, the build is not failing and we can still fix the issues within the stipulated timeline. To accomplish this, developers need to understand the nature of the vulnerability and its impact on the application. They also need to have access to tools and resources that can help them resolve the issue, such as code snippets or guidance on best practices.

One approach to resolving issues without breaking the build is to use an iterative development process. In this approach, developers identify and remediate vulnerabilities in small batches, testing each change to ensure that it does not introduce new vulnerabilities or break the build.

Another approach is to use code branching and version control to isolate...