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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

Open source IaC tools

IaC scanning tools can also generate reports that provide developers with detailed information on security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, along with recommended remediation steps. This allows developers to quickly address security issues and ensure that infrastructure code is secure and compliant with relevant standards.

There are several IaC tools available in the market, each with its unique features and functionalities.

The following are some popular IaC tools:

  • Terraform: Terraform is an open source tool developed by HashiCorp. It allows users to describe infrastructure resources using a simple configuration language and manage them through code. Terraform can be used to provision resources in a variety of cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more.
  • Ansible: Ansible is an open source automation tool that can be used for configuration management, application deployment, and provisioning infrastructure. Ansible allows...