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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

Case study 1 – the Codecov security incident

One example of a security incident related to IaC involves a company called Codecov, which provides code coverage tools for software developers. In April 2021, Codecov announced that their infrastructure had been compromised by an attacker, resulting in a supply chain attack that affected many of their customers.

The attack involved the theft of Codecov’s credentials for an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, which contained a code signing key for their Bash Uploader tool. This tool is used by many of Codecov’s customers to upload code coverage reports to their platform.

The attacker used the stolen credentials to modify the Bash Uploader code and add a malicious script that collected environment variables, including sensitive data such as access tokens and credentials, and sent them to a remote server controlled by the attacker. This allowed the attacker to gain unauthorized access to many of Codecov’s customers...