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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

Understanding the Security Posture

DevSecOps is one area that is having an all-time boom for organizations. Alternatively, we can say that DevSecOps is an increasingly critical area for organizations. Every organization wants to move toward or shift toward using DevSecOps processes, tools, and technologies. The immense changes in the applications and the code led to a big change in the way we used to work with the code. Stakeholders want to have new functionalities and features with lightning speed. However, while we are shifting gears toward DevSecOps, we need to look at a big horizon. While transitioning to a cloud-native approach offers advantages, it also introduces significant risks.

The way we are adopting with lightning-fast speed, we are missing out on understanding what goes into designing a secure environment, and now, we are talking about the Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT), and dependencies, it becomes imperative to understand the ecosystem very...