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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

Summary

As we conclude this chapter on license compliance, code coverage, and baseline policies within the context of software security and DevSecOps, we’ve navigated through the intricacies of software licensing and its critical role in maintaining legal and security standards across the development and deployment life cycle.

We began by defining software licenses and emphasizing their importance in the realm of software security, setting the stage for understanding the various types of licenses – ranging from permissive and copyleft to proprietary – and their unique implications on software use and distribution.

When looking at the DevSecOps pipeline, we examined the impact of software licenses, highlighting the necessity of automated license detection and the benefits it brings to security and compliance. Tools such as FOSSA and Black Duck emerged as crucial in identifying and tracking licenses, while collaborative efforts among legal, security, and development...