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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

In the realm of software development, an imaginary organization, TechFuture, has been creating innovative applications. However, they’ve realized that integrating security throughout their development life cycle could dramatically improve their products and minimize vulnerabilities. They've decided to implement DevSecOps principles.

By embracing DevSecOps principles, TechFuture is able to build more secure applications, respond more quickly to security incidents, and foster better collaboration among their teams. They realized that DevSecOps was not just about tools and processes, but more about a cultural shift toward shared responsibility and proactive security practices.

In this chapter, we explored the different DevSecOps principles and learned about the challenges within the DevSecOps pipeline.

In the next chapter, we will understand the security posture.