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Hands-On Security in DevOps

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788995504

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Hsu

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

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

1. Assessments

2. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Further reading

Visit the following URLs for more information:

GitHub Awesome PenTest:https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-pentest/
PCI penetration guide:https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/Penetration_Testing_Guidance_March_2015.pdf
NIST 800-115 Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-115/final
GSMA IOT Security Assessment: https://www.gsma.com/iot/future-iot-networks/iot-security-guidelines/
NIST 800-125 Guide to Security for Full Virtualization Technologies:https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-125/final
ISCACA Virtualization Security checklist:http://www.isaca.org/Knowledge-Center/Research/Documents/Virtualization-Security-Checklist_res_Eng_1010.pdf
GitHubAwesomefirmwaresecurity: https://github.com/PreOS-Security/awesome-firmware-security
GitHub Security of BIOS/UEFI System Firmware from Attacker and Defender Perspectives:https://github.com/rmusser01/Infosec_Reference/blob/master/Draft/BIOS%20UEFI%20Attacks...

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Authors (1)

Hsu

Hsu

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.

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