Hands-On Security in DevOps

Protect your organization’s security at all levels by introducing the latest strategies for securing DevOps

Key Features

• Integrate security at each layer of the DevOps pipeline
• Discover security practices to protect your cloud services by detecting fraud and intrusion
• Explore solutions to infrastructure security using DevOps principles

Book Description

DevOps has provided speed and quality benefits with continuous development and deployment methods, but it does not guarantee the security of an entire organization. Hands-On Security in DevOps shows you how to adopt DevOps techniques to continuously improve your organization’s security at every level, rather than just focusing on protecting your infrastructure.

This guide combines DevOps and security to help you to protect cloud services, and teaches you how to use techniques to integrate security directly in your product. You will learn how to implement security at every layer, such as for the web application, cloud infrastructure, communication, and the delivery pipeline layers. With the help of practical examples, you’ll explore the core security aspects, such as blocking attacks, fraud detection, cloud forensics, and incident response. In the concluding chapters, you will cover topics on extending DevOps security, such as risk assessment, threat modeling, and continuous security.

By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in implementing security in all layers of your organization and be confident in monitoring and blocking attacks throughout your cloud services.

What you will learn

• Understand DevSecOps culture and organization
• Learn security requirements, management, and metrics
• Secure your architecture design by looking at threat modeling, coding tools and practices
• Handle most common security issues and explore black and white-box testing tools and practices
• Work with security monitoring toolkits and online fraud detection rules
• Explore GDPR and PII handling case studies to understand the DevSecOps lifecycle

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: DevSecOps Drivers and Challenges

Chapter 2: Security Goals and Metrics

Chapter 3: Security Assurance Program and Organization

Chapter 4: Security Requirements and Compliance

Chapter 5: Case Study – Security Assurance Program

Chapter 6: Security Architecture and Design Principles Chapter 7: Threat Modeling Practices and Secure Design Chapter 8: Secure Coding Best Practices

Chapter 9: Case Study – Security and Privacy by Design

Chapter 10: Security-Testing Plan and Practices

Chapter 11: Whitebox Testing Tips

Chapter 12: Security Testing Toolkits

Chapter 13: Security Automation with the CI Pipeline

Chapter 14: Incident Response

Chapter 15: Security Monitoring

Chapter 16: Security Assessment for New Releases

Chapter 17: Threat Inspection and Intelligence

Chapter 18: Business Fraud and Service Abuses

Chapter 19: GDPR Compliance Case Study

Chapter 20: DevSecOps – Challenges, Tips, and FAQs

Who this book is for

Hands-On Security in DevOps is for system administrators, security consultants, and DevOps engineers who want to secure their entire organization. Basic understanding of Cloud computing, automation frameworks, and programming is necessary.

About the Author

Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu is a senior security architect, software development manager, and project manager with more than 20 years’ experience in security services technology. He has extensive experience of the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) in relation to activities including secure architecture/design review, secure code review, threat modeling, automated security testing, and cloud service inspection. He is also an in-house SDL trainer, having offered hands-on courses totaling in more than 300 hours. He is also the author of Hands-on Security in DevOps, and a co-author of several Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) projects, including the OWASP testing guide, a proactive control guide, deserialization, cryptographic, and the XXE prevention cheatsheet.