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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

What is IaC?

IaC is an approach to managing infrastructure using code. With IaC, infrastructure resources such as virtual machines, networks, and storage are defined and managed through code. This means we don’t have to manually configure these resources through a graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI).

Using IaC, developers and system administrators can automate the process of provisioning and managing infrastructure resources, making it easier to scale and manage complex environments. The code to manage the infrastructure can be version-controlled, tested, and deployed using the same DevOps practices that are used for application code, allowing for faster and more reliable deployments.

IaC typically uses configuration management tools such as Terraform or Ansible. These tools allow developers and system administrators to define infrastructure resources declaratively, specifying the desired state of the infrastructure in code. The tools then automatically...