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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

What is a CI/CD pipeline?

The CI/CD pipeline is the backbone of modern software practices, ensuring that software is always improving, with changes smoothly integrated and swiftly delivered to users. It’s all about making sure your “scrapbook” remains neat, beautiful, and always ready to be shown off!

Imagine you’re creating a scrapbook. Every time you get new photos, stickers, or materials, you want to add them to your scrapbook and make sure they fit well without spoiling the previous pages.

CI/CD is a bit like this process for software development, ensuring every change fits well and gets neatly integrated into the bigger picture.

CI

CI is the process of continuously adding (or integrating) new changes in code to the main project. Every time you get a new photo (code change), you try adding it to your scrapbook (main project) to make sure it fits. Without CI, developers might work separately, and when they try to merge their changes, things...