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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

Different types of software licenses

Software licenses are legal agreements that dictate how software can be used, modified, and distributed. They fall into several categories, including proprietary, open source, and freeware licenses. Proprietary licenses are characterized by strict control over the software’s use and distribution, often requiring payment, and typically don’t provide access to the source code. On the other hand, open source licenses can be more permissive, allowing access to the source code, modification, and redistribution, often free of charge. They can further be categorized into permissive licenses such as MIT and Apache, which have minimal restrictions, and copyleft licenses such as GPL and LGPL, which require any derivative work to be distributed under the same open source terms. Freeware licenses allow users to use software for free, but like proprietary software, the source code is not provided, and modifications are not allowed.

Each license...