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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 4 – GovAgency

Let’s imagine a hypothetical government agency, GovAgency, that is responsible for providing numerous public services, including tax processing, benefit distribution, and identity verification. Its systems are a complex mixture of legacy and modern applications, processing vast amounts of sensitive personal data daily.

Initially, GovAgency followed traditional, bureaucratic software development processes with lengthy approval chains, resulting in slow and infrequent software updates. However, in recent years, it shifted to an Agile-DevOps model to improve responsiveness and service delivery.

Security requirements for government agencies

Security and compliance are paramount for government agencies such as GovAgency. It must adhere to strict regulations such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) in the US, and it manages highly sensitive data that could have national security implications if breached.

Furthermore...