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Hands-On Security in DevOps
Hands-On Security in DevOps

Hands-On Security in DevOps: Ensure continuous security, deployment, and delivery with DevSecOps

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Hands-On Security in DevOps

Security Goals and Metrics

In the previous chapter, we discussed the challenges and the business drivers for DevSecOps. In this chapter, we will discuss security goals and metrics. The adoption of DevSecOps is a continuous learning journey and takes lots of stakeholder involvement, process optimization, business priority conflict, customization of security tools, and security knowledge learning. This chapter will give you some hands-on tips, challenges, and common practices based on a functional role perspective, and will also look at GDPR as an example to explain how to do a privacy impact assessment.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Organization goal
  • Development goal/metrics
  • QA goals/metrics
  • Operation goal/metrics

Organization goal

The end goal of security for any organization is to secure customer digital assets. The goal we are going to discuss here is how to define organization-level phased goals for security assurance programs and DevSecOps.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) governance define three key areas when considering an organization security goal:

  • Strategy and metrics: Establishes the framework for a software security assurance program
  • Policy and compliance: Focused on ensuring external legal or regulatory compliance (such as GDPR or ISO 27001) is met
  • Education and guidance: This is for security awareness training and role-specific security capabilities in order to perform DevOps

Here are some typical DevSecOps security practices to be aligned with the business objective. The goal of DevSecOps may be subject to...

Development goal/metrics

The security goal of a development team is to deliver secure design and implementation. Based on OWASP SAMM practices, there are three key aspects to consider during the construction phase:

  • Threat assessment
  • Security requirements
  • Secure architecture

Although design and implementation review is normally also part of the development team's activities, we will take these into consideration in further discussions.

Threat assessment

To have an effective threat assessment, the following guideline or templates are suggested for the project team:

Threat Modeling tools/templates

Rationale and purpose

Knowledge-base of threats and mitigation

Threat and mitigation knowledge can help the team...

QA goal/metrics

In this stage of verification, the role of QA is to assess software security-related issues, code-level vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or logical errors that lead to critical security risks, and so on. OWASP SAMM-defined key security activities in the verification phases include design review, implementation review, and security testing. As we will discuss software security verification details in later chapters, here we highlight some of the key practices in this phase.

Design review

In practice, the security design review can be considered as low-level threat modeling. The following are suggested during design review:

  • Security compliance checklist
  • Security requirement checklist (OWASP ASVS)
  • Top 10 security...

Operation goal/metrics

Based on the SAMM, operational goals can be categorized into three functions: are issue management, environmental hardening, and operational enablement. Let's discuss some of the best practices in each function.

Issue management

Issue management here means how security incidents, vulnerability issues, or security breaches are handled. There should be a vulnerability process in place that involves both the DevOps and Dev team.

In an organization-level security assurance program, it's a must to define security incident and vulnerability response processes and also root cause analysis templates. NIST SP800-61 is a good reference for an organization to establish a security incident response process...

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed security practices from different perspectives based on the OWASP SAMM framework. We discussed security activities in different roles such as security management, development, QA, and operation teams.

First, from the security management perspective, there are organization goals, policies, and education. We use GDPR compliance as an example to show what can be planned in security management.

For a development team, key security activities include threat assessment, security requirements, and secure architecture and coding. Although secure coding is also considered critical in the development stage, we moved the discussion to the secure code verification phase. In terms of threat assessment, we introduced some industry tools, best practices, and even card games. We used GDPR privacy assessment as an example to explain how to execute the PIA...

Questions

  1. Does OWASP SAMM stand for Software Assurance Maturity Model?
  2. Which of the following are defined in OWASP security governance?
    1. Strategy and metrics
    2. Policy and compliance
    3. Education and guidance
    4. All of the above
  3. According to OWASP SAMM, what should be considered during the construction phase?
    1. Security architecture
    2. Threat assessment
    3. Security requirements
    4. All of the above
  4. Which of the following is not a tool or technique for threat modeling?
    1. CAPEC
    2. ATT&CK
    3. OWASP Cornucopia
    4. GDPR
  5. In GDPR, what security practices may we apply to do a privacy assessment?
    1. PIA Privacy Impact Analysis
    2. Penetration testing
    3. Issue Management
    4. ISO 27001

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Key benefits

  • •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

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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.

Who is this book 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.

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
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Table of Contents

22 Chapters
DevSecOps Drivers and Challenges Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Goals and Metrics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Assurance Program and Organization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Requirements and Compliance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Case Study - Security Assurance Program Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Architecture and Design Principles Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Threat Modeling Practices and Secure Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Secure Coding Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Case Study - Security and Privacy by Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security-Testing Plan and Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Whitebox Testing Tips Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Testing Toolkits Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Automation with the CI Pipeline Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Incident Response Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Monitoring Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Assessment for New Releases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Threat Inspection and Intelligence Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Business Fraud and Service Abuses Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
GDPR Compliance Case Study Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
DevSecOps - Challenges, Tips, and FAQs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Assessments Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The book gives a broad coverage for all security aspects of DevOps, ,from infrastructure to communication to application layer. It is helpful for security planning and review of new and established environments.
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Provides a really good overview about security relevant steps during software development lifecycle, combined with practical tipps where to get started and what to consider. I liked especially the well structured lists of assets/standards/tools per topic.
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Original MRP is 1099 rs. Price is inflated.
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I Enjoyed the book and its no nonsense concept of getting to the information a practitioner need. Many of the examples, tables and links will assist any security professional in developing a framework or way forward to implement DEVSECOPS. I was pleasantly surprised I would have said 5 stars but the tables seems awkward in the kindle app for PC or IPAD. Really…..4.9 stars to be honest.
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Gute Übersicht, Security kommt mir einbeinig zu kurz, also DevSecOps
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