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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

DevSecOps Principles

In this chapter, we will compare DevSecOps principles to traditional application security procedures. DevSecOps principles are the key concepts that can help us choose a DevSecOps program at any point of the event cycle and take it to the maturity stage. DevSecOps is a philosophy that blends software development (Dev), security (Sec), and operations (Ops) into a single, unified process. The ultimate goal of DevSecOps is to embed security practices into every stage of the software development process, fostering a culture of shared responsibility for security among all team members.

DevSecOps is like a buddy system for your code – everyone’s got a hand in keeping it safe. Think of it as turning your tech team into a neighborhood watch, where everyone’s on the lookout, not just the “security cops.”

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