Securing DevOps: Security in the Cloud, Julien Vehent

Summary

Securing DevOps

explores how the techniques of DevOps and security should be applied together to make cloud services safer. This introductory book reviews the latest practices used in securing web applications and their infrastructure and teaches you techniques to integrate security directly into your product. You'll also learn the core concepts of DevOps, such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as a service.

About the Technology

An application running in the cloud can benefit from incredible efficiencies, but they come with unique security threats too. A DevOps team's highest priority is understanding those risks and hardening the system against them.

About the Book

Securing DevOps

teaches you the essential techniques to secure your cloud services. Using compelling case studies, it shows you how to build security into automated testing, continuous delivery, and other core DevOps processes. This experience-rich book is filled with mission-critical strategies to protect web applications against attacks, deter fraud attempts, and make your services safer when operating at scale. You'll also learn to identify, assess, and secure the unique vulnerabilities posed by cloud deployments and automation tools commonly used in modern infrastructures.

What's inside

An approach to continuous security

Implementing test-driven security in DevOps

Security techniques for cloud services

Watching for fraud and responding to incidents

Security testing and risk assessment

About the Reader

Readers should be comfortable with Linux and standard DevOps practices like CI, CD, and unit testing.

About the Author

Julien Vehent

is a security architect and DevOps advocate. He leads the Firefox Operations Security team at Mozilla, and is responsible for the security of Firefox's high-traffic cloud services and public websites.

Table of Contents

Securing DevOps

PART 1 - Case study: applying layers of security to a simple DevOps pipeline

Building a barebones DevOps pipeline

Security layer 1: protecting web applications

Security layer 2: protecting cloud infrastructures

Security layer 3: securing communications

Security layer 4: securing the delivery pipeline

PART 2 - Watching for anomalies and protecting services against attacks

Collecting and storing logs

Analyzing logs for fraud and attacks

Detecting intrusions

The Caribbean breach: a case study in incident response

PART 3 - Maturing DevOps security

Assessing risks

Testing security

Continuous security

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