DevSecOps Challenges and DevSecOps Course

 

DevSecOps Challenges

DevSecOps offers numerous benefits to organizations. However, during our observations, we have noted several common challenges that hinder its adoption. These challenges include:

• Inadequate security assurance at the business and project levels.
• Organizational barriers concerning collaboration, tooling, and culture.
• Compromised quality due to security not being prioritized as systems become more complex.
• Insufficient security skills among developers, business stakeholders, and auditors.
• Lack of appropriate security guidance due to limited resources, standards, and data.

Most Comprehensive DevSecOps Course
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1 - Introduction to DevSecOps
-> Importance of Security
-> Types of Security Attacks​
-> OWASP Top Ten
-> What is DevSecOps
-> Tools for Automated Security Tests
-> Understand DevSecOps Concepts and Roles

2- Build Secure CI ​
​-> Vulnerability Scanning:
​- Pre-Commit Hooks
- SAST and SCA
- Visualizing, False Positive Analysis
- Remediation
-> Integrate Security Scans in a Continuous Integration Pipeline
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➡️ Tools: GitLeaks, njsScan, Semgrep, Retire.js, DefectDojo, GitLab CI

3- Build Secure Images
-> Docker Security Best Practices
-> Image Scanning in Release Pipeline
-> Image Scanning in Docker Registry
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➡️ Tools: Trivy, Docker, AWS ECR, GitLab CI

4 - Cloud Security (AWS)
-> AWS Access Management (Users, Groups, Roles, Policies)
-> AWS Security IaC
-> AWS Logging and Monitoring

5 - Secure Deployment
-> Secure Application Deployment from Release Pipeline
-> AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM)
-> AWS Roles for deployment
-> Deploying without static AWS Credentials

6 - Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
-> Dynamic Application Security testing
-> Integrate DAST tool in Release Pipeline
-> Fixing Dynamic Scan Findings
-> Baseline vs Full Scans
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➡️ Tools: OWASP Zap, DefectDojo

7 - Secure Infrastructure as Code
-> Define Secure Infrastructure with IaC
-> IaC in DevSecOps
-> Create Release Pipeline for IaC Project using GitOps Practices
-> Run Security Checks for IaC code in Release Pipeline
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➡️ Tools: Terraform, AWS, TFSec

8 - AWS Logging and Monitoring
-> Auditing with AWS CloudTrail​
-> Monitoring and Alerting with AWS CloudWatch
-> Billing Alerts

9 - Securing K8s & Secure Deployment to EKS
-> Istio Service Mesh
-> Secret Management
- K8s Secrets
- HashiCorp Vault
- AWS KMS and Secrets Manager
-> Key K8s Security Practices
- RBAC​
- IAM Roles for AWS EKS, ECR
- Scanning for Misconfigurations & Security Vulnerabilities
-> Security Policies
- Open Policy Agent (OPA)​
- Policy as Code

10 - Observability
-> Incident Management
-> Integrating Logging and Auditing into SDLO

11 - Governance & Compliance as Code
-> CIS Benchmarks
-> Governance & Compliance
-> Compliance as Code

12 - Organizational Security
-> Strategies for promoting a DevSecOps culture
-> Steps for adopting DevSecOps Principles in Organization