DevSecOps Mastery The Complete Guide to Secure DevOps Integration
COURSE FORMAT & DELIVERY DETAILS Fully Self-Paced. Immediate Online Access. Zero Risk.
This program is designed for busy professionals who need maximum flexibility without compromising depth or results. Once you enroll, you gain instant entry into a structured, expert-guided learning path that adapts to your schedule, not the other way around. There are no fixed start dates, no deadlines, and no mandatory live sessions. You control the pace, timing, and intensity of your progress. Fast, Flexible, and Built for Real-World Results
Most learners complete the core curriculum in 6 to 8 weeks with consistent effort. However, many report implementing key security automation and compliance strategies within the first two weeks. The material is organized into bite-sized, actionable segments that deliver immediate clarity and measurable outcomes, even if you only dedicate 45 minutes a day. With lifetime access, you can revisit any section at any time. Future updates, including new tools, compliance standards, and platform integrations, are delivered seamlessly at no additional cost. This ensures your knowledge stays current in an evolving landscape. Access Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device
The course is optimized for 24/7 global access across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Whether you're reviewing configuration checklists during your commute or troubleshooting deployment scripts between meetings, your learning environment travels with you. The interface is clean, intuitive, and fully responsive, allowing you to maintain momentum wherever you are. Expert-Led Guidance with Dedicated Support
You are not learning in isolation. Throughout the course, you have direct access to our DevSecOps specialists via structured coaching prompts, scenario-based troubleshooting guides, and detailed response templates. Support is focused on clarifying complex integrations, validating secure pipeline designs, and helping you apply best practices to your specific infrastructure or organizational context. Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
Upon finishing the course, you will earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a globally recognized credential in IT and cybersecurity education. This certificate validates your ability to implement security practices across development, operations, and cloud environments. It is shareable on LinkedIn, professional portfolios, and internal talent development systems, demonstrating your mastery of secure delivery pipelines, policy automation, and compliance engineering. No Hidden Fees. Transparent Pricing. Trusted Payment Options.
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If you complete the first three modules and feel the course does not meet your expectations for clarity, depth, or career relevance, simply contact us for a full refund. There are no questions, no delays, and no pressure. This is our promise to ensure you take zero financial risk on your professional growth. After Enrollment: Confirmation and Access Process
Once you enroll, you will receive a confirmation email acknowledging your registration. Your access credentials and learning portal instructions will be sent separately once your enrollment is fully processed and your course materials are prepared for delivery. This ensures a secure, personalized setup aligned with your learning identity and progress tracking capabilities. Will This Work For Me? Real Results, Even If You’re Behind
No matter your current level, this course meets you where you are. You’ll find role-specific implementation examples tailored to Developers, SREs, Security Analysts, Cloud Architects, and DevOps Engineers. The curriculum is built on proven frameworks used in Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups alike. - If you're a developer, you'll learn how to integrate SAST tools into your pull request workflows without slowing down delivery.
- If you're an operations lead, you’ll master infrastructure as code scanning and drift detection techniques that prevent configuration exploits.
- If you're a security professional transitioning into cloud-native environments, you'll bridge the gap with automated policy enforcement and runtime protection strategies.
- If you're new to automation, the step-by-step breakdowns and annotated configuration files make adoption intuitive and safe.
This works even if you’ve never written a CI/CD pipeline, struggled with compliance audits, or felt left behind by rapid DevOps adoption. The methodology is designed to build confidence through structured experimentation, incremental wins, and real configuration examples you can deploy and test immediately. We include testimonials from professionals who doubled their deployment frequency while reducing vulnerabilities by over 70%, moved from reactive patching to proactive threat modeling, and earned promotions based on their ability to lead secure integration initiatives. This is not theoretical. This is operational advantage, earned through deliberate, repeatable practice.
EXTENSIVE and DETAILED COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1: Foundations of Secure DevOps - Understanding the evolution of DevOps and its security challenges
- Defining DevSecOps: Principles, goals, and organizational benefits
- The cost of insecure software delivery in modern enterprises
- Overview of common attack vectors in CI/CD pipelines
- Mapping security left: Early integration in the development lifecycle
- Role of compliance standards in automated environments
- Introduction to shift-left security culture and team alignment
- Key differences between traditional security and DevSecOps
- Identifying high-risk stages in deployment workflows
- Establishing security metrics that matter to engineering teams
- Building executive buy-in for security integration
- Introducing the Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC)
- Threat modeling basics for agile development
- Security champions program design and implementation
- Creating a shared responsibility model across teams
Module 2: Security Frameworks and Compliance Integration - Overview of NIST SP 800-160 and its relevance to DevSecOps
- Applying CIS Controls to CI/CD environments
- Mapping OWASP DevSecOps Guide to real implementations
- Integrating SOC 2 controls into automated workflows
- Understanding GDPR and data security in code pipelines
- Implementing PCI DSS requirements for application builds
- Using ISO 27001 controls in infrastructure automation
- Applying MITRE ATT&CK to pipeline threat analysis
- Creating custom compliance checklists for internal audits
- Designing runbooks for automated policy validation
- Continuous compliance monitoring with policy-as-code
- Integrating SCAP and OpenSCAP into build stages
- Generating evidence reports for auditors automatically
- Using Open Compliance Framework for open-source projects
- Building compliance scorecards for team performance tracking
Module 3: Identity, Access, and Secrets Management - Principle of least privilege in automated pipelines
- Role-based access control for CI/CD platforms
- Service account hardening for build agents
- Secrets lifecycle management: Creation to rotation
- Using HashiCorp Vault for secure secret injection
- Integrating AWS Secrets Manager with deployment jobs
- Google Cloud Secret Manager: Best practices and IAM setup
- Azure Key Vault integration in YAML pipelines
- Environment-specific secret isolation strategies
- Encrypting secrets at rest and in transit
- Detecting secrets leaked in source code repositories
- Implementing pre-commit hooks with Git pre-push checks
- Using Mozilla sops for encrypted configuration files
- Automating secret rotation in Kubernetes environments
- Zero-trust identity patterns for containerized deployments
Module 4: Secure Software Supply Chain Practices - Understanding software bill of materials (SBOM)
- Generating SBOMs using Syft and CycloneDX
- Validating dependencies with in-toto attestations
- Signing artifacts with Cosign and Sigstore
- Verifying image provenance with Fulcio and Rekor
- Setting up artifact repositories with authenticated access
- Implementing Notary v2 for image signing
- Establishing trusted build environments with Tekton Chains
- Preventing dependency confusion attacks
- Enforcing allowed registries in deployment policies
- Using The Update Framework (TUF) for secure distribution
- Automated license compliance scanning with FOSSA
- Blocking high-risk open-source components at merge time
- Analyzing transitive dependencies for hidden risks
- Creating allow/deny lists for third-party packages
Module 5: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) - Choosing the right SAST tool for your tech stack
- Integrating SonarQube into pull request workflows
- Custom rule creation for architecture-specific vulnerabilities
- Reducing false positives with context-aware scanning
- Configuring severity thresholds and blocking gates
- Scaling SAST across monorepo environments
- Using Semgrep for lightweight, customizable pattern matching
- Implementing Bandit for Python security scanning
- Running ESLint-security in JavaScript pipelines
- Integrating Checkmarx One into modern CI systems
- Using CodeQL for deep code analysis and taint tracking
- Generating actionable developer remediation guides
- Scheduling periodic full-repo scans
- Correlating SAST findings with developer ownership
- Establishing SAST coverage targets for engineering teams
Module 6: Dynamic and Interactive Application Testing (DAST/IAC) - Differences between DAST and IAST in pipeline context
- Integrating OWASP ZAP into staging deployments
- Configuring browser automation for authenticated scans
- Reducing scan time with targeted API endpoint discovery
- Using Burp Suite Community in headless mode
- Running automated DAST in ephemeral test environments
- Implementing IAST agents in container runtime
- Evaluating Contrast Security and Dynatrace sensors
- Correlating runtime findings with static scan data
- Setting up scan baselines to detect regression
- Generating false positive suppression rules
- Integrating passive monitoring into production
- Automating report generation for security teams
- Blocking deployments based on critical vulnerabilities
- Tuning scanner configurations for accuracy and performance
Module 7: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Understanding misconfigurations as code vulnerabilities
- Scanning Terraform with Checkov and tfsec
- Validating AWS CloudFormation templates with cfn-nag
- Improving Azure Resource Manager templates with ARM-TTK
- Using Snyk Infrastructure as Code in CI
- Automating policy checks for Kubernetes manifests
- Hardening Helm charts before deployment
- Scanning Pulumi programs for security flaws
- Setting up pre-commit hooks for IaC linting
- Managing Terraform state securely in remote backends
- Enforcing security policies with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Writing Rego policies for cloud resource governance
- Integrating OPA with gatekeeper in Kubernetes clusters
- Scanning Dockerfiles with Hadolint and Trivy
- Enabling drift detection for production infrastructure
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Security - Minimizing attack surface in container images
- Enforcing non-root user execution in deployments
- Implementing read-only root filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Using distroless and scratch images for minimal runtimes
- Implementing pod security policies and baselines
- Configuring network policies for microservice isolation
- Using Falco for runtime threat detection in clusters
- Integrating Aqua Security and Sysdig into CI/CD
- Enabling image signing and verification in registries
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and etcd configurations
- Setting up role bindings with minimal permissions
- Monitoring for anomalous behavior in container logs
- Automating patching of base OS images
- Implementing Kyverno policies for admission control
Module 9: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Design - Architecting secure Jenkins pipelines with least privilege
- Hardening GitHub Actions runners and workflow files
- Securing GitLab CI with restricted variables and tokens
- Using self-hosted runners securely in private networks
- Isolating build environments with ephemeral agents
- Implementing pipeline signing and provenance checks
- Validating pull request sources and branch protection rules
- Enforcing mandatory reviews for security-critical changes
- Automating dependency updates with Dependabot and Renovate
- Integrating security gates between pipeline stages
- Setting up approval workflows for production deployments
- Using pipeline templates to enforce standardization
- Preventing credential leakage in build logs
- Masking secrets in console output and error traces
- Logging pipeline execution for forensic analysis
Module 10: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) - Understanding CSPM in the context of DevSecOps
- Integrating AWS Security Hub with CI/CD pipelines
- Using Azure Security Center for continuous assessment
- Monitoring GCP Security Command Center findings
- Automating response to bucket exposure alerts
- Enforcing encryption-at-rest for cloud storage
- Scanning for public-facing databases and VMs
- Generating cloud compliance reports on demand
- Integrating Prisma Cloud with CI environments
- Using Wiz.io for drift and misconfiguration detection
- Monitoring IAM policy changes and privilege escalations
- Automating ticket creation for high-risk findings
- Enabling cross-account security auditing
- Setting up real-time notifications for critical events
- Creating custom detection rules for organization-specific risks
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Observability - Monitoring application behavior in production
- Integrating application performance monitoring with security
- Setting up distributed tracing for anomaly detection
- Collecting and analyzing logs with centralized platforms
- Using ELK stack for security event aggregation
- Configuring Grafana dashboards for security KPIs
- Detecting brute force attacks from log patterns
- Correlating failed login attempts across services
- Implementing integrity checks for running binaries
- Using eBPF for low-level system monitoring
- Instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry
- Creating custom alert thresholds for security metrics
- Automating incident response based on telemetry
- Integrating SIEM tools like Splunk and Sentinel
- Building real-time threat detection playbooks
Module 12: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Introduction to policy-as-code principles
- Writing validation rules with Open Policy Agent
- Implementing Gatekeeper policies in Kubernetes
- Using Kyverno for native policy management
- Enforcing naming conventions and tagging standards
- Validating resource quotas and limits automatically
- Blocking non-compliant deployments pre-merge
- Generating policy violation reports for auditors
- Automating exception handling workflows
- Integrating policy checks into Pull Request automation
- Writing complex policies with Rego and JSON logic
- Testing policies in isolated development environments
- Versioning and managing policy libraries
- Deploying policies across multiple clusters
- Monitoring policy effectiveness and adoption rates
Module 13: Threat Modeling and Risk Prioritization - Introduction to STRIDE threat modeling framework
- Applying DREAD scoring to DevSecOps risks
- Conducting architecture-level threat assessments
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for diagrams
- Automating threat model updates with CI jobs
- Mapping threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics
- Documenting and tracking mitigation efforts
- Using risk heat maps to prioritize remediation
- Integrating threat intelligence feeds into pipelines
- Creating automated risk registers
- Linking vulnerabilities to business impact
- Reporting security posture to executive stakeholders
- Establishing risk tolerance thresholds
- Conducting tabletop exercises for incident readiness
Module 14: Incident Response and Forensics in DevOps - Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
Module 1: Foundations of Secure DevOps - Understanding the evolution of DevOps and its security challenges
- Defining DevSecOps: Principles, goals, and organizational benefits
- The cost of insecure software delivery in modern enterprises
- Overview of common attack vectors in CI/CD pipelines
- Mapping security left: Early integration in the development lifecycle
- Role of compliance standards in automated environments
- Introduction to shift-left security culture and team alignment
- Key differences between traditional security and DevSecOps
- Identifying high-risk stages in deployment workflows
- Establishing security metrics that matter to engineering teams
- Building executive buy-in for security integration
- Introducing the Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC)
- Threat modeling basics for agile development
- Security champions program design and implementation
- Creating a shared responsibility model across teams
Module 2: Security Frameworks and Compliance Integration - Overview of NIST SP 800-160 and its relevance to DevSecOps
- Applying CIS Controls to CI/CD environments
- Mapping OWASP DevSecOps Guide to real implementations
- Integrating SOC 2 controls into automated workflows
- Understanding GDPR and data security in code pipelines
- Implementing PCI DSS requirements for application builds
- Using ISO 27001 controls in infrastructure automation
- Applying MITRE ATT&CK to pipeline threat analysis
- Creating custom compliance checklists for internal audits
- Designing runbooks for automated policy validation
- Continuous compliance monitoring with policy-as-code
- Integrating SCAP and OpenSCAP into build stages
- Generating evidence reports for auditors automatically
- Using Open Compliance Framework for open-source projects
- Building compliance scorecards for team performance tracking
Module 3: Identity, Access, and Secrets Management - Principle of least privilege in automated pipelines
- Role-based access control for CI/CD platforms
- Service account hardening for build agents
- Secrets lifecycle management: Creation to rotation
- Using HashiCorp Vault for secure secret injection
- Integrating AWS Secrets Manager with deployment jobs
- Google Cloud Secret Manager: Best practices and IAM setup
- Azure Key Vault integration in YAML pipelines
- Environment-specific secret isolation strategies
- Encrypting secrets at rest and in transit
- Detecting secrets leaked in source code repositories
- Implementing pre-commit hooks with Git pre-push checks
- Using Mozilla sops for encrypted configuration files
- Automating secret rotation in Kubernetes environments
- Zero-trust identity patterns for containerized deployments
Module 4: Secure Software Supply Chain Practices - Understanding software bill of materials (SBOM)
- Generating SBOMs using Syft and CycloneDX
- Validating dependencies with in-toto attestations
- Signing artifacts with Cosign and Sigstore
- Verifying image provenance with Fulcio and Rekor
- Setting up artifact repositories with authenticated access
- Implementing Notary v2 for image signing
- Establishing trusted build environments with Tekton Chains
- Preventing dependency confusion attacks
- Enforcing allowed registries in deployment policies
- Using The Update Framework (TUF) for secure distribution
- Automated license compliance scanning with FOSSA
- Blocking high-risk open-source components at merge time
- Analyzing transitive dependencies for hidden risks
- Creating allow/deny lists for third-party packages
Module 5: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) - Choosing the right SAST tool for your tech stack
- Integrating SonarQube into pull request workflows
- Custom rule creation for architecture-specific vulnerabilities
- Reducing false positives with context-aware scanning
- Configuring severity thresholds and blocking gates
- Scaling SAST across monorepo environments
- Using Semgrep for lightweight, customizable pattern matching
- Implementing Bandit for Python security scanning
- Running ESLint-security in JavaScript pipelines
- Integrating Checkmarx One into modern CI systems
- Using CodeQL for deep code analysis and taint tracking
- Generating actionable developer remediation guides
- Scheduling periodic full-repo scans
- Correlating SAST findings with developer ownership
- Establishing SAST coverage targets for engineering teams
Module 6: Dynamic and Interactive Application Testing (DAST/IAC) - Differences between DAST and IAST in pipeline context
- Integrating OWASP ZAP into staging deployments
- Configuring browser automation for authenticated scans
- Reducing scan time with targeted API endpoint discovery
- Using Burp Suite Community in headless mode
- Running automated DAST in ephemeral test environments
- Implementing IAST agents in container runtime
- Evaluating Contrast Security and Dynatrace sensors
- Correlating runtime findings with static scan data
- Setting up scan baselines to detect regression
- Generating false positive suppression rules
- Integrating passive monitoring into production
- Automating report generation for security teams
- Blocking deployments based on critical vulnerabilities
- Tuning scanner configurations for accuracy and performance
Module 7: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Understanding misconfigurations as code vulnerabilities
- Scanning Terraform with Checkov and tfsec
- Validating AWS CloudFormation templates with cfn-nag
- Improving Azure Resource Manager templates with ARM-TTK
- Using Snyk Infrastructure as Code in CI
- Automating policy checks for Kubernetes manifests
- Hardening Helm charts before deployment
- Scanning Pulumi programs for security flaws
- Setting up pre-commit hooks for IaC linting
- Managing Terraform state securely in remote backends
- Enforcing security policies with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Writing Rego policies for cloud resource governance
- Integrating OPA with gatekeeper in Kubernetes clusters
- Scanning Dockerfiles with Hadolint and Trivy
- Enabling drift detection for production infrastructure
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Security - Minimizing attack surface in container images
- Enforcing non-root user execution in deployments
- Implementing read-only root filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Using distroless and scratch images for minimal runtimes
- Implementing pod security policies and baselines
- Configuring network policies for microservice isolation
- Using Falco for runtime threat detection in clusters
- Integrating Aqua Security and Sysdig into CI/CD
- Enabling image signing and verification in registries
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and etcd configurations
- Setting up role bindings with minimal permissions
- Monitoring for anomalous behavior in container logs
- Automating patching of base OS images
- Implementing Kyverno policies for admission control
Module 9: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Design - Architecting secure Jenkins pipelines with least privilege
- Hardening GitHub Actions runners and workflow files
- Securing GitLab CI with restricted variables and tokens
- Using self-hosted runners securely in private networks
- Isolating build environments with ephemeral agents
- Implementing pipeline signing and provenance checks
- Validating pull request sources and branch protection rules
- Enforcing mandatory reviews for security-critical changes
- Automating dependency updates with Dependabot and Renovate
- Integrating security gates between pipeline stages
- Setting up approval workflows for production deployments
- Using pipeline templates to enforce standardization
- Preventing credential leakage in build logs
- Masking secrets in console output and error traces
- Logging pipeline execution for forensic analysis
Module 10: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) - Understanding CSPM in the context of DevSecOps
- Integrating AWS Security Hub with CI/CD pipelines
- Using Azure Security Center for continuous assessment
- Monitoring GCP Security Command Center findings
- Automating response to bucket exposure alerts
- Enforcing encryption-at-rest for cloud storage
- Scanning for public-facing databases and VMs
- Generating cloud compliance reports on demand
- Integrating Prisma Cloud with CI environments
- Using Wiz.io for drift and misconfiguration detection
- Monitoring IAM policy changes and privilege escalations
- Automating ticket creation for high-risk findings
- Enabling cross-account security auditing
- Setting up real-time notifications for critical events
- Creating custom detection rules for organization-specific risks
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Observability - Monitoring application behavior in production
- Integrating application performance monitoring with security
- Setting up distributed tracing for anomaly detection
- Collecting and analyzing logs with centralized platforms
- Using ELK stack for security event aggregation
- Configuring Grafana dashboards for security KPIs
- Detecting brute force attacks from log patterns
- Correlating failed login attempts across services
- Implementing integrity checks for running binaries
- Using eBPF for low-level system monitoring
- Instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry
- Creating custom alert thresholds for security metrics
- Automating incident response based on telemetry
- Integrating SIEM tools like Splunk and Sentinel
- Building real-time threat detection playbooks
Module 12: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Introduction to policy-as-code principles
- Writing validation rules with Open Policy Agent
- Implementing Gatekeeper policies in Kubernetes
- Using Kyverno for native policy management
- Enforcing naming conventions and tagging standards
- Validating resource quotas and limits automatically
- Blocking non-compliant deployments pre-merge
- Generating policy violation reports for auditors
- Automating exception handling workflows
- Integrating policy checks into Pull Request automation
- Writing complex policies with Rego and JSON logic
- Testing policies in isolated development environments
- Versioning and managing policy libraries
- Deploying policies across multiple clusters
- Monitoring policy effectiveness and adoption rates
Module 13: Threat Modeling and Risk Prioritization - Introduction to STRIDE threat modeling framework
- Applying DREAD scoring to DevSecOps risks
- Conducting architecture-level threat assessments
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for diagrams
- Automating threat model updates with CI jobs
- Mapping threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics
- Documenting and tracking mitigation efforts
- Using risk heat maps to prioritize remediation
- Integrating threat intelligence feeds into pipelines
- Creating automated risk registers
- Linking vulnerabilities to business impact
- Reporting security posture to executive stakeholders
- Establishing risk tolerance thresholds
- Conducting tabletop exercises for incident readiness
Module 14: Incident Response and Forensics in DevOps - Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Overview of NIST SP 800-160 and its relevance to DevSecOps
- Applying CIS Controls to CI/CD environments
- Mapping OWASP DevSecOps Guide to real implementations
- Integrating SOC 2 controls into automated workflows
- Understanding GDPR and data security in code pipelines
- Implementing PCI DSS requirements for application builds
- Using ISO 27001 controls in infrastructure automation
- Applying MITRE ATT&CK to pipeline threat analysis
- Creating custom compliance checklists for internal audits
- Designing runbooks for automated policy validation
- Continuous compliance monitoring with policy-as-code
- Integrating SCAP and OpenSCAP into build stages
- Generating evidence reports for auditors automatically
- Using Open Compliance Framework for open-source projects
- Building compliance scorecards for team performance tracking
Module 3: Identity, Access, and Secrets Management - Principle of least privilege in automated pipelines
- Role-based access control for CI/CD platforms
- Service account hardening for build agents
- Secrets lifecycle management: Creation to rotation
- Using HashiCorp Vault for secure secret injection
- Integrating AWS Secrets Manager with deployment jobs
- Google Cloud Secret Manager: Best practices and IAM setup
- Azure Key Vault integration in YAML pipelines
- Environment-specific secret isolation strategies
- Encrypting secrets at rest and in transit
- Detecting secrets leaked in source code repositories
- Implementing pre-commit hooks with Git pre-push checks
- Using Mozilla sops for encrypted configuration files
- Automating secret rotation in Kubernetes environments
- Zero-trust identity patterns for containerized deployments
Module 4: Secure Software Supply Chain Practices - Understanding software bill of materials (SBOM)
- Generating SBOMs using Syft and CycloneDX
- Validating dependencies with in-toto attestations
- Signing artifacts with Cosign and Sigstore
- Verifying image provenance with Fulcio and Rekor
- Setting up artifact repositories with authenticated access
- Implementing Notary v2 for image signing
- Establishing trusted build environments with Tekton Chains
- Preventing dependency confusion attacks
- Enforcing allowed registries in deployment policies
- Using The Update Framework (TUF) for secure distribution
- Automated license compliance scanning with FOSSA
- Blocking high-risk open-source components at merge time
- Analyzing transitive dependencies for hidden risks
- Creating allow/deny lists for third-party packages
Module 5: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) - Choosing the right SAST tool for your tech stack
- Integrating SonarQube into pull request workflows
- Custom rule creation for architecture-specific vulnerabilities
- Reducing false positives with context-aware scanning
- Configuring severity thresholds and blocking gates
- Scaling SAST across monorepo environments
- Using Semgrep for lightweight, customizable pattern matching
- Implementing Bandit for Python security scanning
- Running ESLint-security in JavaScript pipelines
- Integrating Checkmarx One into modern CI systems
- Using CodeQL for deep code analysis and taint tracking
- Generating actionable developer remediation guides
- Scheduling periodic full-repo scans
- Correlating SAST findings with developer ownership
- Establishing SAST coverage targets for engineering teams
Module 6: Dynamic and Interactive Application Testing (DAST/IAC) - Differences between DAST and IAST in pipeline context
- Integrating OWASP ZAP into staging deployments
- Configuring browser automation for authenticated scans
- Reducing scan time with targeted API endpoint discovery
- Using Burp Suite Community in headless mode
- Running automated DAST in ephemeral test environments
- Implementing IAST agents in container runtime
- Evaluating Contrast Security and Dynatrace sensors
- Correlating runtime findings with static scan data
- Setting up scan baselines to detect regression
- Generating false positive suppression rules
- Integrating passive monitoring into production
- Automating report generation for security teams
- Blocking deployments based on critical vulnerabilities
- Tuning scanner configurations for accuracy and performance
Module 7: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Understanding misconfigurations as code vulnerabilities
- Scanning Terraform with Checkov and tfsec
- Validating AWS CloudFormation templates with cfn-nag
- Improving Azure Resource Manager templates with ARM-TTK
- Using Snyk Infrastructure as Code in CI
- Automating policy checks for Kubernetes manifests
- Hardening Helm charts before deployment
- Scanning Pulumi programs for security flaws
- Setting up pre-commit hooks for IaC linting
- Managing Terraform state securely in remote backends
- Enforcing security policies with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Writing Rego policies for cloud resource governance
- Integrating OPA with gatekeeper in Kubernetes clusters
- Scanning Dockerfiles with Hadolint and Trivy
- Enabling drift detection for production infrastructure
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Security - Minimizing attack surface in container images
- Enforcing non-root user execution in deployments
- Implementing read-only root filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Using distroless and scratch images for minimal runtimes
- Implementing pod security policies and baselines
- Configuring network policies for microservice isolation
- Using Falco for runtime threat detection in clusters
- Integrating Aqua Security and Sysdig into CI/CD
- Enabling image signing and verification in registries
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and etcd configurations
- Setting up role bindings with minimal permissions
- Monitoring for anomalous behavior in container logs
- Automating patching of base OS images
- Implementing Kyverno policies for admission control
Module 9: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Design - Architecting secure Jenkins pipelines with least privilege
- Hardening GitHub Actions runners and workflow files
- Securing GitLab CI with restricted variables and tokens
- Using self-hosted runners securely in private networks
- Isolating build environments with ephemeral agents
- Implementing pipeline signing and provenance checks
- Validating pull request sources and branch protection rules
- Enforcing mandatory reviews for security-critical changes
- Automating dependency updates with Dependabot and Renovate
- Integrating security gates between pipeline stages
- Setting up approval workflows for production deployments
- Using pipeline templates to enforce standardization
- Preventing credential leakage in build logs
- Masking secrets in console output and error traces
- Logging pipeline execution for forensic analysis
Module 10: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) - Understanding CSPM in the context of DevSecOps
- Integrating AWS Security Hub with CI/CD pipelines
- Using Azure Security Center for continuous assessment
- Monitoring GCP Security Command Center findings
- Automating response to bucket exposure alerts
- Enforcing encryption-at-rest for cloud storage
- Scanning for public-facing databases and VMs
- Generating cloud compliance reports on demand
- Integrating Prisma Cloud with CI environments
- Using Wiz.io for drift and misconfiguration detection
- Monitoring IAM policy changes and privilege escalations
- Automating ticket creation for high-risk findings
- Enabling cross-account security auditing
- Setting up real-time notifications for critical events
- Creating custom detection rules for organization-specific risks
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Observability - Monitoring application behavior in production
- Integrating application performance monitoring with security
- Setting up distributed tracing for anomaly detection
- Collecting and analyzing logs with centralized platforms
- Using ELK stack for security event aggregation
- Configuring Grafana dashboards for security KPIs
- Detecting brute force attacks from log patterns
- Correlating failed login attempts across services
- Implementing integrity checks for running binaries
- Using eBPF for low-level system monitoring
- Instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry
- Creating custom alert thresholds for security metrics
- Automating incident response based on telemetry
- Integrating SIEM tools like Splunk and Sentinel
- Building real-time threat detection playbooks
Module 12: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Introduction to policy-as-code principles
- Writing validation rules with Open Policy Agent
- Implementing Gatekeeper policies in Kubernetes
- Using Kyverno for native policy management
- Enforcing naming conventions and tagging standards
- Validating resource quotas and limits automatically
- Blocking non-compliant deployments pre-merge
- Generating policy violation reports for auditors
- Automating exception handling workflows
- Integrating policy checks into Pull Request automation
- Writing complex policies with Rego and JSON logic
- Testing policies in isolated development environments
- Versioning and managing policy libraries
- Deploying policies across multiple clusters
- Monitoring policy effectiveness and adoption rates
Module 13: Threat Modeling and Risk Prioritization - Introduction to STRIDE threat modeling framework
- Applying DREAD scoring to DevSecOps risks
- Conducting architecture-level threat assessments
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for diagrams
- Automating threat model updates with CI jobs
- Mapping threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics
- Documenting and tracking mitigation efforts
- Using risk heat maps to prioritize remediation
- Integrating threat intelligence feeds into pipelines
- Creating automated risk registers
- Linking vulnerabilities to business impact
- Reporting security posture to executive stakeholders
- Establishing risk tolerance thresholds
- Conducting tabletop exercises for incident readiness
Module 14: Incident Response and Forensics in DevOps - Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Understanding software bill of materials (SBOM)
- Generating SBOMs using Syft and CycloneDX
- Validating dependencies with in-toto attestations
- Signing artifacts with Cosign and Sigstore
- Verifying image provenance with Fulcio and Rekor
- Setting up artifact repositories with authenticated access
- Implementing Notary v2 for image signing
- Establishing trusted build environments with Tekton Chains
- Preventing dependency confusion attacks
- Enforcing allowed registries in deployment policies
- Using The Update Framework (TUF) for secure distribution
- Automated license compliance scanning with FOSSA
- Blocking high-risk open-source components at merge time
- Analyzing transitive dependencies for hidden risks
- Creating allow/deny lists for third-party packages
Module 5: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) - Choosing the right SAST tool for your tech stack
- Integrating SonarQube into pull request workflows
- Custom rule creation for architecture-specific vulnerabilities
- Reducing false positives with context-aware scanning
- Configuring severity thresholds and blocking gates
- Scaling SAST across monorepo environments
- Using Semgrep for lightweight, customizable pattern matching
- Implementing Bandit for Python security scanning
- Running ESLint-security in JavaScript pipelines
- Integrating Checkmarx One into modern CI systems
- Using CodeQL for deep code analysis and taint tracking
- Generating actionable developer remediation guides
- Scheduling periodic full-repo scans
- Correlating SAST findings with developer ownership
- Establishing SAST coverage targets for engineering teams
Module 6: Dynamic and Interactive Application Testing (DAST/IAC) - Differences between DAST and IAST in pipeline context
- Integrating OWASP ZAP into staging deployments
- Configuring browser automation for authenticated scans
- Reducing scan time with targeted API endpoint discovery
- Using Burp Suite Community in headless mode
- Running automated DAST in ephemeral test environments
- Implementing IAST agents in container runtime
- Evaluating Contrast Security and Dynatrace sensors
- Correlating runtime findings with static scan data
- Setting up scan baselines to detect regression
- Generating false positive suppression rules
- Integrating passive monitoring into production
- Automating report generation for security teams
- Blocking deployments based on critical vulnerabilities
- Tuning scanner configurations for accuracy and performance
Module 7: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Understanding misconfigurations as code vulnerabilities
- Scanning Terraform with Checkov and tfsec
- Validating AWS CloudFormation templates with cfn-nag
- Improving Azure Resource Manager templates with ARM-TTK
- Using Snyk Infrastructure as Code in CI
- Automating policy checks for Kubernetes manifests
- Hardening Helm charts before deployment
- Scanning Pulumi programs for security flaws
- Setting up pre-commit hooks for IaC linting
- Managing Terraform state securely in remote backends
- Enforcing security policies with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Writing Rego policies for cloud resource governance
- Integrating OPA with gatekeeper in Kubernetes clusters
- Scanning Dockerfiles with Hadolint and Trivy
- Enabling drift detection for production infrastructure
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Security - Minimizing attack surface in container images
- Enforcing non-root user execution in deployments
- Implementing read-only root filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Using distroless and scratch images for minimal runtimes
- Implementing pod security policies and baselines
- Configuring network policies for microservice isolation
- Using Falco for runtime threat detection in clusters
- Integrating Aqua Security and Sysdig into CI/CD
- Enabling image signing and verification in registries
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and etcd configurations
- Setting up role bindings with minimal permissions
- Monitoring for anomalous behavior in container logs
- Automating patching of base OS images
- Implementing Kyverno policies for admission control
Module 9: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Design - Architecting secure Jenkins pipelines with least privilege
- Hardening GitHub Actions runners and workflow files
- Securing GitLab CI with restricted variables and tokens
- Using self-hosted runners securely in private networks
- Isolating build environments with ephemeral agents
- Implementing pipeline signing and provenance checks
- Validating pull request sources and branch protection rules
- Enforcing mandatory reviews for security-critical changes
- Automating dependency updates with Dependabot and Renovate
- Integrating security gates between pipeline stages
- Setting up approval workflows for production deployments
- Using pipeline templates to enforce standardization
- Preventing credential leakage in build logs
- Masking secrets in console output and error traces
- Logging pipeline execution for forensic analysis
Module 10: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) - Understanding CSPM in the context of DevSecOps
- Integrating AWS Security Hub with CI/CD pipelines
- Using Azure Security Center for continuous assessment
- Monitoring GCP Security Command Center findings
- Automating response to bucket exposure alerts
- Enforcing encryption-at-rest for cloud storage
- Scanning for public-facing databases and VMs
- Generating cloud compliance reports on demand
- Integrating Prisma Cloud with CI environments
- Using Wiz.io for drift and misconfiguration detection
- Monitoring IAM policy changes and privilege escalations
- Automating ticket creation for high-risk findings
- Enabling cross-account security auditing
- Setting up real-time notifications for critical events
- Creating custom detection rules for organization-specific risks
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Observability - Monitoring application behavior in production
- Integrating application performance monitoring with security
- Setting up distributed tracing for anomaly detection
- Collecting and analyzing logs with centralized platforms
- Using ELK stack for security event aggregation
- Configuring Grafana dashboards for security KPIs
- Detecting brute force attacks from log patterns
- Correlating failed login attempts across services
- Implementing integrity checks for running binaries
- Using eBPF for low-level system monitoring
- Instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry
- Creating custom alert thresholds for security metrics
- Automating incident response based on telemetry
- Integrating SIEM tools like Splunk and Sentinel
- Building real-time threat detection playbooks
Module 12: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Introduction to policy-as-code principles
- Writing validation rules with Open Policy Agent
- Implementing Gatekeeper policies in Kubernetes
- Using Kyverno for native policy management
- Enforcing naming conventions and tagging standards
- Validating resource quotas and limits automatically
- Blocking non-compliant deployments pre-merge
- Generating policy violation reports for auditors
- Automating exception handling workflows
- Integrating policy checks into Pull Request automation
- Writing complex policies with Rego and JSON logic
- Testing policies in isolated development environments
- Versioning and managing policy libraries
- Deploying policies across multiple clusters
- Monitoring policy effectiveness and adoption rates
Module 13: Threat Modeling and Risk Prioritization - Introduction to STRIDE threat modeling framework
- Applying DREAD scoring to DevSecOps risks
- Conducting architecture-level threat assessments
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for diagrams
- Automating threat model updates with CI jobs
- Mapping threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics
- Documenting and tracking mitigation efforts
- Using risk heat maps to prioritize remediation
- Integrating threat intelligence feeds into pipelines
- Creating automated risk registers
- Linking vulnerabilities to business impact
- Reporting security posture to executive stakeholders
- Establishing risk tolerance thresholds
- Conducting tabletop exercises for incident readiness
Module 14: Incident Response and Forensics in DevOps - Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Differences between DAST and IAST in pipeline context
- Integrating OWASP ZAP into staging deployments
- Configuring browser automation for authenticated scans
- Reducing scan time with targeted API endpoint discovery
- Using Burp Suite Community in headless mode
- Running automated DAST in ephemeral test environments
- Implementing IAST agents in container runtime
- Evaluating Contrast Security and Dynatrace sensors
- Correlating runtime findings with static scan data
- Setting up scan baselines to detect regression
- Generating false positive suppression rules
- Integrating passive monitoring into production
- Automating report generation for security teams
- Blocking deployments based on critical vulnerabilities
- Tuning scanner configurations for accuracy and performance
Module 7: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Understanding misconfigurations as code vulnerabilities
- Scanning Terraform with Checkov and tfsec
- Validating AWS CloudFormation templates with cfn-nag
- Improving Azure Resource Manager templates with ARM-TTK
- Using Snyk Infrastructure as Code in CI
- Automating policy checks for Kubernetes manifests
- Hardening Helm charts before deployment
- Scanning Pulumi programs for security flaws
- Setting up pre-commit hooks for IaC linting
- Managing Terraform state securely in remote backends
- Enforcing security policies with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Writing Rego policies for cloud resource governance
- Integrating OPA with gatekeeper in Kubernetes clusters
- Scanning Dockerfiles with Hadolint and Trivy
- Enabling drift detection for production infrastructure
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Security - Minimizing attack surface in container images
- Enforcing non-root user execution in deployments
- Implementing read-only root filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Using distroless and scratch images for minimal runtimes
- Implementing pod security policies and baselines
- Configuring network policies for microservice isolation
- Using Falco for runtime threat detection in clusters
- Integrating Aqua Security and Sysdig into CI/CD
- Enabling image signing and verification in registries
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and etcd configurations
- Setting up role bindings with minimal permissions
- Monitoring for anomalous behavior in container logs
- Automating patching of base OS images
- Implementing Kyverno policies for admission control
Module 9: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Design - Architecting secure Jenkins pipelines with least privilege
- Hardening GitHub Actions runners and workflow files
- Securing GitLab CI with restricted variables and tokens
- Using self-hosted runners securely in private networks
- Isolating build environments with ephemeral agents
- Implementing pipeline signing and provenance checks
- Validating pull request sources and branch protection rules
- Enforcing mandatory reviews for security-critical changes
- Automating dependency updates with Dependabot and Renovate
- Integrating security gates between pipeline stages
- Setting up approval workflows for production deployments
- Using pipeline templates to enforce standardization
- Preventing credential leakage in build logs
- Masking secrets in console output and error traces
- Logging pipeline execution for forensic analysis
Module 10: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) - Understanding CSPM in the context of DevSecOps
- Integrating AWS Security Hub with CI/CD pipelines
- Using Azure Security Center for continuous assessment
- Monitoring GCP Security Command Center findings
- Automating response to bucket exposure alerts
- Enforcing encryption-at-rest for cloud storage
- Scanning for public-facing databases and VMs
- Generating cloud compliance reports on demand
- Integrating Prisma Cloud with CI environments
- Using Wiz.io for drift and misconfiguration detection
- Monitoring IAM policy changes and privilege escalations
- Automating ticket creation for high-risk findings
- Enabling cross-account security auditing
- Setting up real-time notifications for critical events
- Creating custom detection rules for organization-specific risks
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Observability - Monitoring application behavior in production
- Integrating application performance monitoring with security
- Setting up distributed tracing for anomaly detection
- Collecting and analyzing logs with centralized platforms
- Using ELK stack for security event aggregation
- Configuring Grafana dashboards for security KPIs
- Detecting brute force attacks from log patterns
- Correlating failed login attempts across services
- Implementing integrity checks for running binaries
- Using eBPF for low-level system monitoring
- Instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry
- Creating custom alert thresholds for security metrics
- Automating incident response based on telemetry
- Integrating SIEM tools like Splunk and Sentinel
- Building real-time threat detection playbooks
Module 12: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Introduction to policy-as-code principles
- Writing validation rules with Open Policy Agent
- Implementing Gatekeeper policies in Kubernetes
- Using Kyverno for native policy management
- Enforcing naming conventions and tagging standards
- Validating resource quotas and limits automatically
- Blocking non-compliant deployments pre-merge
- Generating policy violation reports for auditors
- Automating exception handling workflows
- Integrating policy checks into Pull Request automation
- Writing complex policies with Rego and JSON logic
- Testing policies in isolated development environments
- Versioning and managing policy libraries
- Deploying policies across multiple clusters
- Monitoring policy effectiveness and adoption rates
Module 13: Threat Modeling and Risk Prioritization - Introduction to STRIDE threat modeling framework
- Applying DREAD scoring to DevSecOps risks
- Conducting architecture-level threat assessments
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for diagrams
- Automating threat model updates with CI jobs
- Mapping threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics
- Documenting and tracking mitigation efforts
- Using risk heat maps to prioritize remediation
- Integrating threat intelligence feeds into pipelines
- Creating automated risk registers
- Linking vulnerabilities to business impact
- Reporting security posture to executive stakeholders
- Establishing risk tolerance thresholds
- Conducting tabletop exercises for incident readiness
Module 14: Incident Response and Forensics in DevOps - Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Minimizing attack surface in container images
- Enforcing non-root user execution in deployments
- Implementing read-only root filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Using distroless and scratch images for minimal runtimes
- Implementing pod security policies and baselines
- Configuring network policies for microservice isolation
- Using Falco for runtime threat detection in clusters
- Integrating Aqua Security and Sysdig into CI/CD
- Enabling image signing and verification in registries
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and etcd configurations
- Setting up role bindings with minimal permissions
- Monitoring for anomalous behavior in container logs
- Automating patching of base OS images
- Implementing Kyverno policies for admission control
Module 9: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Design - Architecting secure Jenkins pipelines with least privilege
- Hardening GitHub Actions runners and workflow files
- Securing GitLab CI with restricted variables and tokens
- Using self-hosted runners securely in private networks
- Isolating build environments with ephemeral agents
- Implementing pipeline signing and provenance checks
- Validating pull request sources and branch protection rules
- Enforcing mandatory reviews for security-critical changes
- Automating dependency updates with Dependabot and Renovate
- Integrating security gates between pipeline stages
- Setting up approval workflows for production deployments
- Using pipeline templates to enforce standardization
- Preventing credential leakage in build logs
- Masking secrets in console output and error traces
- Logging pipeline execution for forensic analysis
Module 10: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) - Understanding CSPM in the context of DevSecOps
- Integrating AWS Security Hub with CI/CD pipelines
- Using Azure Security Center for continuous assessment
- Monitoring GCP Security Command Center findings
- Automating response to bucket exposure alerts
- Enforcing encryption-at-rest for cloud storage
- Scanning for public-facing databases and VMs
- Generating cloud compliance reports on demand
- Integrating Prisma Cloud with CI environments
- Using Wiz.io for drift and misconfiguration detection
- Monitoring IAM policy changes and privilege escalations
- Automating ticket creation for high-risk findings
- Enabling cross-account security auditing
- Setting up real-time notifications for critical events
- Creating custom detection rules for organization-specific risks
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Observability - Monitoring application behavior in production
- Integrating application performance monitoring with security
- Setting up distributed tracing for anomaly detection
- Collecting and analyzing logs with centralized platforms
- Using ELK stack for security event aggregation
- Configuring Grafana dashboards for security KPIs
- Detecting brute force attacks from log patterns
- Correlating failed login attempts across services
- Implementing integrity checks for running binaries
- Using eBPF for low-level system monitoring
- Instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry
- Creating custom alert thresholds for security metrics
- Automating incident response based on telemetry
- Integrating SIEM tools like Splunk and Sentinel
- Building real-time threat detection playbooks
Module 12: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Introduction to policy-as-code principles
- Writing validation rules with Open Policy Agent
- Implementing Gatekeeper policies in Kubernetes
- Using Kyverno for native policy management
- Enforcing naming conventions and tagging standards
- Validating resource quotas and limits automatically
- Blocking non-compliant deployments pre-merge
- Generating policy violation reports for auditors
- Automating exception handling workflows
- Integrating policy checks into Pull Request automation
- Writing complex policies with Rego and JSON logic
- Testing policies in isolated development environments
- Versioning and managing policy libraries
- Deploying policies across multiple clusters
- Monitoring policy effectiveness and adoption rates
Module 13: Threat Modeling and Risk Prioritization - Introduction to STRIDE threat modeling framework
- Applying DREAD scoring to DevSecOps risks
- Conducting architecture-level threat assessments
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for diagrams
- Automating threat model updates with CI jobs
- Mapping threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics
- Documenting and tracking mitigation efforts
- Using risk heat maps to prioritize remediation
- Integrating threat intelligence feeds into pipelines
- Creating automated risk registers
- Linking vulnerabilities to business impact
- Reporting security posture to executive stakeholders
- Establishing risk tolerance thresholds
- Conducting tabletop exercises for incident readiness
Module 14: Incident Response and Forensics in DevOps - Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Understanding CSPM in the context of DevSecOps
- Integrating AWS Security Hub with CI/CD pipelines
- Using Azure Security Center for continuous assessment
- Monitoring GCP Security Command Center findings
- Automating response to bucket exposure alerts
- Enforcing encryption-at-rest for cloud storage
- Scanning for public-facing databases and VMs
- Generating cloud compliance reports on demand
- Integrating Prisma Cloud with CI environments
- Using Wiz.io for drift and misconfiguration detection
- Monitoring IAM policy changes and privilege escalations
- Automating ticket creation for high-risk findings
- Enabling cross-account security auditing
- Setting up real-time notifications for critical events
- Creating custom detection rules for organization-specific risks
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Observability - Monitoring application behavior in production
- Integrating application performance monitoring with security
- Setting up distributed tracing for anomaly detection
- Collecting and analyzing logs with centralized platforms
- Using ELK stack for security event aggregation
- Configuring Grafana dashboards for security KPIs
- Detecting brute force attacks from log patterns
- Correlating failed login attempts across services
- Implementing integrity checks for running binaries
- Using eBPF for low-level system monitoring
- Instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry
- Creating custom alert thresholds for security metrics
- Automating incident response based on telemetry
- Integrating SIEM tools like Splunk and Sentinel
- Building real-time threat detection playbooks
Module 12: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Introduction to policy-as-code principles
- Writing validation rules with Open Policy Agent
- Implementing Gatekeeper policies in Kubernetes
- Using Kyverno for native policy management
- Enforcing naming conventions and tagging standards
- Validating resource quotas and limits automatically
- Blocking non-compliant deployments pre-merge
- Generating policy violation reports for auditors
- Automating exception handling workflows
- Integrating policy checks into Pull Request automation
- Writing complex policies with Rego and JSON logic
- Testing policies in isolated development environments
- Versioning and managing policy libraries
- Deploying policies across multiple clusters
- Monitoring policy effectiveness and adoption rates
Module 13: Threat Modeling and Risk Prioritization - Introduction to STRIDE threat modeling framework
- Applying DREAD scoring to DevSecOps risks
- Conducting architecture-level threat assessments
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for diagrams
- Automating threat model updates with CI jobs
- Mapping threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics
- Documenting and tracking mitigation efforts
- Using risk heat maps to prioritize remediation
- Integrating threat intelligence feeds into pipelines
- Creating automated risk registers
- Linking vulnerabilities to business impact
- Reporting security posture to executive stakeholders
- Establishing risk tolerance thresholds
- Conducting tabletop exercises for incident readiness
Module 14: Incident Response and Forensics in DevOps - Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Introduction to policy-as-code principles
- Writing validation rules with Open Policy Agent
- Implementing Gatekeeper policies in Kubernetes
- Using Kyverno for native policy management
- Enforcing naming conventions and tagging standards
- Validating resource quotas and limits automatically
- Blocking non-compliant deployments pre-merge
- Generating policy violation reports for auditors
- Automating exception handling workflows
- Integrating policy checks into Pull Request automation
- Writing complex policies with Rego and JSON logic
- Testing policies in isolated development environments
- Versioning and managing policy libraries
- Deploying policies across multiple clusters
- Monitoring policy effectiveness and adoption rates
Module 13: Threat Modeling and Risk Prioritization - Introduction to STRIDE threat modeling framework
- Applying DREAD scoring to DevSecOps risks
- Conducting architecture-level threat assessments
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for diagrams
- Automating threat model updates with CI jobs
- Mapping threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics
- Documenting and tracking mitigation efforts
- Using risk heat maps to prioritize remediation
- Integrating threat intelligence feeds into pipelines
- Creating automated risk registers
- Linking vulnerabilities to business impact
- Reporting security posture to executive stakeholders
- Establishing risk tolerance thresholds
- Conducting tabletop exercises for incident readiness
Module 14: Incident Response and Forensics in DevOps - Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Designing incident response runbooks for cloud environments
- Preserving evidence from CI/CD systems
- Isolating compromised build agents
- Recovering from poisoned artifact attacks
- Conducting root cause analysis of security breaches
- Using Git history to trace malicious changes
- Implementing immutable build logs for forensics
- Restoring from clean deployment states
- Notifying stakeholders during active incidents
- Integrating communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty
- Automating post-mortem documentation
- Establishing blameless culture in incident reviews
- Tracking recurring failure patterns
- Improving detection speed through feedback loops
- Deploying canary rollbacks for rapid recovery
Module 15: DevSecOps Metrics, Reporting, and Leadership - Defining key DevSecOps performance indicators
- Measuring mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Tracking security debt reduction over time
- Measuring SAST/DAST coverage across codebase
- Reporting fix rates for critical vulnerabilities
- Calculating build failure rates due to security checks
- Assessing team adoption of security practices
- Using dashboards to visualize security posture
- Generating executive summary reports
- Aligning security goals with business objectives
- Presenting metrics to non-technical stakeholders
- Establishing security KPIs for engineering teams
- Conducting maturity assessments using DORA metrics
- Improving deployment frequency while reducing failures
- Building a roadmap for continuous security improvement
Module 16: Integration, Deployment, and Real Projects - Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Building a fully secured CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning in one workflow
- Deploying a hardened microservice to Kubernetes
- Implementing automated compliance checks in staging
- Setting up secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Enabling image signing and verification in registry
- Configuring policy enforcement with OPA and Gatekeeper
- Creating drift detection alerts for production changes
- Running vulnerability scans on every pull request
- Generating SBOM for release artifacts
- Implementing automated rollback on detection of exploit
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for suspicious activity
- Validating infrastructure changes with policy-as-code
- Documenting security decisions and architecture choices
- Certifying pipeline security with internal audit checklist
Module 17: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Reviewing key DevSecOps domains for mastery
- Practicing implementation-based assessment questions
- Preparing technical documentation for certification audit
- Building a professional portfolio of secure projects
- Sharing Certificate of Completion on LinkedIn
- Updating resume with DevSecOps capabilities
- Explaining secure integration experience in interviews
- Benchmarking skills against industry roles
- Identifying advancement opportunities in current organization
- Transitioning from developer to security champion or DevSecOps lead
- Engaging with professional communities and forums
- Contributing to open-source security tooling
- Presenting findings at internal tech talks
- Demonstrating ROI of security investments
- Leading cross-functional security initiatives
Module 18: Future-Proofing and Ongoing Mastery - Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution
- Staying current with emerging DevSecOps trends
- Monitoring new CVEs affecting CI/CD tools
- Updating tooling and plugins regularly
- Subscribing to security advisories and mailing lists
- Participating in beta programs for security tools
- Using AI responsibly in vulnerability detection
- Avoiding over-reliance on automation without validation
- Conducting quarterly security pipeline reviews
- Onboarding new team members with secure templates
- Scaling security practices across multiple teams
- Establishing centralized security libraries
- Sharing best practices through internal documentation
- Measuring long-term reduction in incidents
- Recognizing team achievements in secure delivery
- Planning the next phase of security evolution