Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
Learn the purpose, benefits, concepts, and vocabulary of DevSecOps including DevOps security strategies and business benefits.
This course explains how DevOps security practices differ from other security approaches and provides the education needed to understand and apply data and security sciences. Participants learn the purpose, benefits, concepts, and vocabulary of DevSecOps; particularly how DevSecOps roles fit with a DevOps culture and organization. At the end of this course, participants will understand using “security as code” with the intent of making security and compliance consumable as a service.
The course is designed to teach practical steps on how to integrate security programs into DevOps practices and highlights how professionals can use data and security science as the primary means of protecting the organization and customer.
This course positions attendees to successfully complete the DevSecOps Engineering exam, which is offered on the last day of class.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
• The purpose, benefits, concepts, and vocabulary of DevSecOps
• How DevOps security practices differ from other security approaches
• Business-driven security strategies
• Understanding and applying data and security sciences
• The use and benefits of Red and Blue Teams
• Integrating security into Continuous Delivery workflows
• How DevSecOps roles fit with a DevOps culture and organization
Course Content
Course Introduction
• Course Goals
• Course Agenda
• Exercise: Diagramming Your CI/CD Pipeline
Why DevSecOps?
• Key Terms and Concepts
• Why DevSecOps is important
• 3 Ways to Think About DevOps+Security
• Key Principles of DevSecOps
Culture and Management
• Key Terms and Concepts
• Incentive Model
• Resilience
• Organizational Culture
• Generativity
• Erickson, Westrum, and LaLoux
• Exercise: Influencing Culture
Strategic Considerations
• Key Terms and Concepts
• How Much Security is Enough?
• Threat Modeling
• Context is Everything
• Risk Management in a High-velocity World
• Exercise: Measuring For Success
General Security Considerations
• Avoiding the Checkbox Trap
• Basic Security Hygiene
• Architectural Considerations
• Federated Identity
• Log Management
IAM: Identity & Access Management
• Key Terms and Concepts
• IAM Basic Concepts
• Why IAM is Important
• Implementation Guidance
• Automation Opportunities
• How to Hurt Yourself with IAM
• Exercise: Overcoming IAM Challenges
Application Security
• Application Security Testing (AST)
• Testing Techniques
• Prioritizing Testing Techniques
• Issue Management Integration
• Threat Modeling
• Leveraging Automation
Operational Security
• Key Terms and Concepts
• Basic Security Hygiene Practices
• Role of Operations Management
• The Ops Environment
• Exercise: Adding Security to Your CI/CD Pipeline
Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Audit
• Key Terms and Concepts
• What is GRC?
• Why Care About GRC?
• Rethinking Policies
• Policy as Code
• Shifting Audit Left
• 3 Myths of Segregation of Duties vs. DevOps
• Exercise: Making Policies, Audit and Compliance Work with DevOps
Logging, Monitoring, and Response
• Key Terms and Concepts
• Setting Up Log Management
• Incident Response and Forensics
• Threat Intelligence and Information Sharing
Course Review
• Where We Started
• What We Covered
• Key Reminders of What’s Important
• Exercise: Creating a Personal Action Plan
Exam Preparations
• Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List
• Sample Exam Review
Learner Materials:
• Digital Learner Manual (excellent post-class reference)
• Participation in exercises designed to apply concepts
• Sample documents, templates, tools and techniques
• Access to additional sources of information and communities
Certification exam:
• Successfully passing (65%) the 90-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads tothe candidate’s designation as a certified DevSecOps Engineer (DSOE).
• The certification is governed andmaintained by the DevOps Institute.
COURSE PREREQUISITES
The DevOps Foundation certification is a prerequisite for DevSecOps Engineering to ensure participants are aligned with the baseline DevOps definitions and principles.