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Hands-On Security in DevOps

You're reading from   Hands-On Security in DevOps Ensure continuous security, deployment, and delivery with DevSecOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788995504
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. DevSecOps Drivers and Challenges FREE CHAPTER 2. Security Goals and Metrics 3. Security Assurance Program and Organization 4. Security Requirements and Compliance 5. Case Study - Security Assurance Program 6. Security Architecture and Design Principles 7. Threat Modeling Practices and Secure Design 8. Secure Coding Best Practices 9. Case Study - Security and Privacy by Design 10. Security-Testing Plan and Practices 11. Whitebox Testing Tips 12. Security Testing Toolkits 13. Security Automation with the CI Pipeline 14. Incident Response 15. Security Monitoring 16. Security Assessment for New Releases 17. Threat Inspection and Intelligence 18. Business Fraud and Service Abuses 19. GDPR Compliance Case Study 20. DevSecOps - Challenges, Tips, and FAQs 21. Assessments 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Establishing secure coding baselines

Secure coding baselines are the minimum secure coding requirements and a checklist for the project team to move to the next stage. Secure coding baselines are also part of the release criteria. It's always suggested you use secure coding guidelines based on industry best practices or standards, such as CERT Secure Coding, as described in the preceding table.

Define secure coding baselines based on each programming language, such as PHP, Python, JavaScript, Android, and iOS. The secure coding baseline is better to include the information not only secure coding rules but also examples of security risks, vulnerable code examples, and suggested ones. Here is an example.

Secure code issue – predictable random numbers:

The use of a predictable random number can result in vulnerabilities in the session ID, token, or encryption initialization...
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