Mastering DevSecOps: Building Secure, Scalable Systems in the AI Era
You're under pressure. Systems are scaling faster than security can keep up. AI-driven architectures introduce new attack surfaces overnight. Your team moves at speed, but vulnerabilities slip through. One breach could cost millions. The board demands resilience. The market demands innovation. You’re stuck between moving fast and staying safe. Meanwhile, top-tier organizations are building systems where security is not a bottleneck, but a force multiplier. They deploy with confidence, scale with precision, and attract premium roles, partnerships, and funding because their infrastructure is trusted, compliant, and resilient by design. They don't react to threats. They prevent them. Now, Mastering DevSecOps: Building Secure, Scalable Systems in the AI Era gives you the exact blueprint to close that gap. This isn’t theory. It’s a proven, action-driven learning path that takes you from alert fatigue and fragmented tooling to architecting secure-by-default systems that scale seamlessly with AI workloads-all while aligning with compliance, operations, and business strategy. One infrastructure lead at a Fortune 500 tech firm applied this framework and reduced critical vulnerabilities in CI/CD pipelines by 92% in under 8 weeks. Another senior SRE used it to get her scaled DevSecOps initiative approved by CISO and CFO, unlocking $1.8M in budget for automation tooling. This course delivers the clarity, credibility, and practical mastery to go from reactive scramble to proactive control. You’ll finish with a fully documented, board-ready DevSecOps implementation plan tailored to your environment-regardless of stack, team size, or cloud footprint. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.COURSE FORMAT & DELIVERY DETAILS Self-Paced Learning with Immediate Online Access Enroll once, and gain full, self-directed access to the entire Mastering DevSecOps curriculum. There are no fixed start dates, no mandatory sync-ups, and no time zones to juggle. You progress at your own speed, on your own schedule-ideal for professionals balancing production responsibilities with skill advancement. How Long Does It Take?
Most learners complete the core curriculum in 4 to 6 weeks with 6–8 hours per week. However, many apply individual modules immediately, often seeing measurable improvements in pipeline security, compliance coverage, and deployment velocity within the first 10 days. Lifetime Access, Permanent Updates
Once you're enrolled, you have lifetime access to all materials. The course is continuously updated with new frameworks, compliance standards, zero-day mitigation patterns, and AI-specific security controls-all at no additional cost. As the threat landscape evolves, your knowledge stays ahead. Global, Mobile-Friendly, 24/7 Access
Access the content from any device-desktop, tablet, or mobile-anywhere in the world. The interface is optimized for readability and responsive interaction, ensuring you can study during commutes, downtime, or late-night deep dives with perfect clarity. Instructor Guidance & Support
You’re never alone. The course includes direct access to expert DevSecOps architects through structured support channels. Submit questions, request scenario-specific feedback, or get guidance on real-world implementations. Responses are typically provided within 24 business hours, with detailed, actionable insights. Certificate of Completion by The Art of Service
Upon finishing the course and submitting your implementation plan, you’ll receive a formal Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service-a globally recognized credential trusted by enterprises, auditors, and hiring managers across cloud, security, and engineering roles. This certification validates your ability to design and deploy secure, scalable systems in complex, AI-enabled environments. No Hidden Fees. No Surprises.
The pricing is transparent and all-inclusive. What you see is exactly what you get-no subscriptions, no upsells, no add-ons. One payment grants full access to all modules, resources, templates, and certification. Accepted Payment Methods
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If the course doesn’t meet your expectations, simply request a refund within 30 days of enrollment. No questions asked. This is our promise to eliminate risk and ensure you only keep what adds value. What Happens After Enrollment?
After signing up, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Once your access is fully provisioned, you'll receive a separate email with your login credentials and step-by-step access instructions. This ensures system stability and a seamless onboarding experience for every learner. This Course Works - Even If You’ve Tried Before
You might be thinking: “I’ve read books, taken training, joined forums-and still feel stuck.” You’re not alone. Many learners come in overwhelmed by tool fragmentation, policy drift, or unclear ownership between dev, sec, and ops teams. This course works because it’s not about isolated tools. It’s a unified methodology-a system-designed around real-world constraints and leadership expectations. You’ll get battle-tested frameworks, ready-to-adapt templates, and role-specific strategies whether you’re a platform engineer, SRE, security architect, or tech lead. Senior DevSecOps Engineer, London: “After three failed internal rollouts, this course gave me the structure and stakeholder alignment playbook I needed. We’re now 100% compliant with SOC 2 and deploying 6x faster.” Security Architect, Singapore: “The AI threat modeling section alone justified the investment. We caught an LLM prompt injection flaw in staging that would have cost us millions in customer data exposure.” The difference isn't more tools. It's clarity, cohesion, and confidence. And that’s exactly what you’re getting.
Module 1: Foundations of Modern DevSecOps - Understanding the evolution from traditional DevOps to DevSecOps
- Why AI and machine learning systems amplify security risks
- Mapping shared responsibility in cloud-native environments
- Principles of Zero Trust in continuous delivery pipelines
- Integrating compliance as code from day one
- Defining security as a continuous feedback loop
- The role of identity, authentication, and access control in scalable systems
- Threat modeling for microservices and API-driven architectures
- Security posture assessment: baseline evaluation techniques
- Establishing DevSecOps KPIs and success metrics
Module 2: System Design for Security & Scale - Architecting secure-by-default cloud infrastructure
- Immutable infrastructure patterns for production stability
- Container hardening: minimizing attack surface in Docker and Podman
- Secure configuration of Kubernetes clusters and operators
- Network segmentation and service mesh security (Istio, Linkerd)
- Protecting data in transit and at rest using modern encryption standards
- Designing for least privilege in IAM policies and role assignments
- Dependency isolation in multi-tenant AI applications
- Automated drift detection and configuration enforcement
- Disaster recovery planning with security-first rollback strategies
Module 3: CI/CD Pipeline Security Engineering - Securing Git workflows with branch protection and code ownership
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST) integration in build stages
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) in pre-production
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source vulnerability management
- Secrets detection and prevention in code repositories
- Secure artifact storage and signing with private registries
- Gatekeeping mechanisms: policy engines and approval workflows
- Runtime behavior analysis for early anomaly detection
- Implementing supply chain integrity with Sigstore and in-toto
- Real-time feedback loops between security tools and developers
Module 4: AI-Specific Security Controls - Understanding unique risks in AI and LLM-powered systems
- Securing model training data pipelines against poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference attack mitigation
- Protecting prompt engineering layers from injection and misuse
- Monitoring for adversarial inputs and model drift
- Audit logging for AI decision trails and compliance reporting
- Secure model serving with encrypted inference channels
- Authentication and rate-limiting for AI APIs
- Implementing responsible AI guardrails in production
- Regulatory alignment for AI systems (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF)
Module 5: Automated Compliance & Policy as Code - Translating regulatory requirements into executable policies
- Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) for declarative security rules
- Enforcing compliance in Terraform and CloudFormation templates
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS controls at scale
- Continuous compliance monitoring with real-time alerting
- Policy versioning and change tracking for audit readiness
- Integrating compliance checks into pull request workflows
- Generating compliance evidence without manual effort
- Custom rule creation for organization-specific mandates
- Policy drift remediation and auto-healing workflows
Module 6: Identity, Access, and Secrets Management - Modern identity federation with SSO and OIDC
- MFA enforcement across developer and production environments
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Implementing short-lived credentials and tokens
- Centralized secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Dynamic secrets provisioning for databases and APIs
- Secrets lifecycle automation: rotation, revocation, and audit
- Securing CI/CD runner identities and ephemeral agents
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained permissions
- Session recording and monitoring for privileged access
Module 7: Threat Detection & Incident Response - Building a detection-first security culture
- Instrumenting systems for high-fidelity observability
- Correlating logs, metrics, and traces for anomaly detection
- Creating detection rules for supply chain compromise
- Behavioral baselining for user and system activity
- Automated triage and prioritization of security alerts
- Incident playbooks for container escapes and privilege escalation
- Forensic readiness: preserving evidence in cloud environments
- Secure communication channels during active incidents
- Post-incident analysis and process improvement cycles
Module 8: Secure Deployment & Production Hardening - Blue-green and canary deployment safety checks
- Automated rollback triggers based on security events
- Host-level hardening with SELinux, AppArmor, and eBPF
- Runtime threat detection with Falco and similar tools
- Kernel-level security monitoring and enforcement
- Disabling insecure APIs and legacy protocols in production
- Minimizing container privileges with seccomp and capabilities
- Securing service accounts and workload identities
- Enabling signed image verification with cosign and Notary
- Automating configuration compliance at deployment time
Module 9: DevSecOps Toolchain Integration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and maturity level
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into CI workflows
- Orchestrating security scans with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions
- Centralizing security findings with vulnerability dashboards
- Automating ticket creation in Jira and ServiceNow
- Standardizing tool outputs with SARIF and CycloneDX
- Managing tool sprawl with unified security platforms
- Optimizing scan performance without sacrificing coverage
- Reducing false positives through contextual tuning
- Feedback loop design: making security actionable for developers
Module 10: Culture, Collaboration & Leadership Alignment - Breaking down silos between development, security, and operations
- Defining shared ownership of security outcomes
- Running effective security guilds and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Creating developer-centric security documentation
- Measuring team health with DevSecOps maturity metrics
- Aligning security initiatives with business objectives
- Communicating technical risk to non-technical stakeholders
- Presenting a board-ready DevSecOps business case
- Securing budget and executive sponsorship
- Building a culture of psychological safety around reporting
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Labs - Laboratory 1: Securing a CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Laboratory 2: Hardening a Kubernetes deployment with policy enforcement
- Laboratory 3: Implementing secrets management in Vault
- Laboratory 4: Detecting and blocking a simulated supply chain attack
- Laboratory 5: Hardening an AI inference API against prompt injection
- Laboratory 6: Automating compliance checks in Terraform
- Laboratory 7: Responding to a container breakout incident
- Laboratory 8: Creating and enforcing OPA policies in CI
- Laboratory 9: Integrating SAST tools with GitHub Actions
- Laboratory 10: Building a secure multi-environment deployment strategy
Module 12: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise - Designing a centralized DevSecOps enablement team
- Standardizing security tooling across business units
- Implementing guardrails for self-service infrastructure
- Managing policy consistency in hybrid and multi-cloud setups
- Scaling secure onboarding for new development teams
- Creating internal documentation hubs and playbooks
- Automating security reviews for platform-as-a-service offerings
- Measuring and reporting enterprise-wide security posture
- Integrating third-party risk assessments into pipelines
- Developing a continuous improvement roadmap for DevSecOps
Module 13: Certification & Career Advancement - How to prepare and submit your Certificate of Completion project
- Structuring a real-world DevSecOps implementation plan
- Documenting lessons learned and measurable outcomes
- Incorporating stakeholder feedback into your final submission
- Formatting guidelines for professional presentation
- How The Art of Service evaluates certification submissions
- Leveraging your certification on LinkedIn and resumes
- Positioning yourself for senior, lead, or architect roles
- Bonus: Template for a DevSecOps maturity assessment report
- Bonus: Ready-to-use board presentation deck for funding requests
- Understanding the evolution from traditional DevOps to DevSecOps
- Why AI and machine learning systems amplify security risks
- Mapping shared responsibility in cloud-native environments
- Principles of Zero Trust in continuous delivery pipelines
- Integrating compliance as code from day one
- Defining security as a continuous feedback loop
- The role of identity, authentication, and access control in scalable systems
- Threat modeling for microservices and API-driven architectures
- Security posture assessment: baseline evaluation techniques
- Establishing DevSecOps KPIs and success metrics
Module 2: System Design for Security & Scale - Architecting secure-by-default cloud infrastructure
- Immutable infrastructure patterns for production stability
- Container hardening: minimizing attack surface in Docker and Podman
- Secure configuration of Kubernetes clusters and operators
- Network segmentation and service mesh security (Istio, Linkerd)
- Protecting data in transit and at rest using modern encryption standards
- Designing for least privilege in IAM policies and role assignments
- Dependency isolation in multi-tenant AI applications
- Automated drift detection and configuration enforcement
- Disaster recovery planning with security-first rollback strategies
Module 3: CI/CD Pipeline Security Engineering - Securing Git workflows with branch protection and code ownership
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST) integration in build stages
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) in pre-production
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source vulnerability management
- Secrets detection and prevention in code repositories
- Secure artifact storage and signing with private registries
- Gatekeeping mechanisms: policy engines and approval workflows
- Runtime behavior analysis for early anomaly detection
- Implementing supply chain integrity with Sigstore and in-toto
- Real-time feedback loops between security tools and developers
Module 4: AI-Specific Security Controls - Understanding unique risks in AI and LLM-powered systems
- Securing model training data pipelines against poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference attack mitigation
- Protecting prompt engineering layers from injection and misuse
- Monitoring for adversarial inputs and model drift
- Audit logging for AI decision trails and compliance reporting
- Secure model serving with encrypted inference channels
- Authentication and rate-limiting for AI APIs
- Implementing responsible AI guardrails in production
- Regulatory alignment for AI systems (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF)
Module 5: Automated Compliance & Policy as Code - Translating regulatory requirements into executable policies
- Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) for declarative security rules
- Enforcing compliance in Terraform and CloudFormation templates
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS controls at scale
- Continuous compliance monitoring with real-time alerting
- Policy versioning and change tracking for audit readiness
- Integrating compliance checks into pull request workflows
- Generating compliance evidence without manual effort
- Custom rule creation for organization-specific mandates
- Policy drift remediation and auto-healing workflows
Module 6: Identity, Access, and Secrets Management - Modern identity federation with SSO and OIDC
- MFA enforcement across developer and production environments
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Implementing short-lived credentials and tokens
- Centralized secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Dynamic secrets provisioning for databases and APIs
- Secrets lifecycle automation: rotation, revocation, and audit
- Securing CI/CD runner identities and ephemeral agents
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained permissions
- Session recording and monitoring for privileged access
Module 7: Threat Detection & Incident Response - Building a detection-first security culture
- Instrumenting systems for high-fidelity observability
- Correlating logs, metrics, and traces for anomaly detection
- Creating detection rules for supply chain compromise
- Behavioral baselining for user and system activity
- Automated triage and prioritization of security alerts
- Incident playbooks for container escapes and privilege escalation
- Forensic readiness: preserving evidence in cloud environments
- Secure communication channels during active incidents
- Post-incident analysis and process improvement cycles
Module 8: Secure Deployment & Production Hardening - Blue-green and canary deployment safety checks
- Automated rollback triggers based on security events
- Host-level hardening with SELinux, AppArmor, and eBPF
- Runtime threat detection with Falco and similar tools
- Kernel-level security monitoring and enforcement
- Disabling insecure APIs and legacy protocols in production
- Minimizing container privileges with seccomp and capabilities
- Securing service accounts and workload identities
- Enabling signed image verification with cosign and Notary
- Automating configuration compliance at deployment time
Module 9: DevSecOps Toolchain Integration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and maturity level
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into CI workflows
- Orchestrating security scans with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions
- Centralizing security findings with vulnerability dashboards
- Automating ticket creation in Jira and ServiceNow
- Standardizing tool outputs with SARIF and CycloneDX
- Managing tool sprawl with unified security platforms
- Optimizing scan performance without sacrificing coverage
- Reducing false positives through contextual tuning
- Feedback loop design: making security actionable for developers
Module 10: Culture, Collaboration & Leadership Alignment - Breaking down silos between development, security, and operations
- Defining shared ownership of security outcomes
- Running effective security guilds and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Creating developer-centric security documentation
- Measuring team health with DevSecOps maturity metrics
- Aligning security initiatives with business objectives
- Communicating technical risk to non-technical stakeholders
- Presenting a board-ready DevSecOps business case
- Securing budget and executive sponsorship
- Building a culture of psychological safety around reporting
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Labs - Laboratory 1: Securing a CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Laboratory 2: Hardening a Kubernetes deployment with policy enforcement
- Laboratory 3: Implementing secrets management in Vault
- Laboratory 4: Detecting and blocking a simulated supply chain attack
- Laboratory 5: Hardening an AI inference API against prompt injection
- Laboratory 6: Automating compliance checks in Terraform
- Laboratory 7: Responding to a container breakout incident
- Laboratory 8: Creating and enforcing OPA policies in CI
- Laboratory 9: Integrating SAST tools with GitHub Actions
- Laboratory 10: Building a secure multi-environment deployment strategy
Module 12: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise - Designing a centralized DevSecOps enablement team
- Standardizing security tooling across business units
- Implementing guardrails for self-service infrastructure
- Managing policy consistency in hybrid and multi-cloud setups
- Scaling secure onboarding for new development teams
- Creating internal documentation hubs and playbooks
- Automating security reviews for platform-as-a-service offerings
- Measuring and reporting enterprise-wide security posture
- Integrating third-party risk assessments into pipelines
- Developing a continuous improvement roadmap for DevSecOps
Module 13: Certification & Career Advancement - How to prepare and submit your Certificate of Completion project
- Structuring a real-world DevSecOps implementation plan
- Documenting lessons learned and measurable outcomes
- Incorporating stakeholder feedback into your final submission
- Formatting guidelines for professional presentation
- How The Art of Service evaluates certification submissions
- Leveraging your certification on LinkedIn and resumes
- Positioning yourself for senior, lead, or architect roles
- Bonus: Template for a DevSecOps maturity assessment report
- Bonus: Ready-to-use board presentation deck for funding requests
- Securing Git workflows with branch protection and code ownership
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST) integration in build stages
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) in pre-production
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source vulnerability management
- Secrets detection and prevention in code repositories
- Secure artifact storage and signing with private registries
- Gatekeeping mechanisms: policy engines and approval workflows
- Runtime behavior analysis for early anomaly detection
- Implementing supply chain integrity with Sigstore and in-toto
- Real-time feedback loops between security tools and developers
Module 4: AI-Specific Security Controls - Understanding unique risks in AI and LLM-powered systems
- Securing model training data pipelines against poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference attack mitigation
- Protecting prompt engineering layers from injection and misuse
- Monitoring for adversarial inputs and model drift
- Audit logging for AI decision trails and compliance reporting
- Secure model serving with encrypted inference channels
- Authentication and rate-limiting for AI APIs
- Implementing responsible AI guardrails in production
- Regulatory alignment for AI systems (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF)
Module 5: Automated Compliance & Policy as Code - Translating regulatory requirements into executable policies
- Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) for declarative security rules
- Enforcing compliance in Terraform and CloudFormation templates
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS controls at scale
- Continuous compliance monitoring with real-time alerting
- Policy versioning and change tracking for audit readiness
- Integrating compliance checks into pull request workflows
- Generating compliance evidence without manual effort
- Custom rule creation for organization-specific mandates
- Policy drift remediation and auto-healing workflows
Module 6: Identity, Access, and Secrets Management - Modern identity federation with SSO and OIDC
- MFA enforcement across developer and production environments
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Implementing short-lived credentials and tokens
- Centralized secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Dynamic secrets provisioning for databases and APIs
- Secrets lifecycle automation: rotation, revocation, and audit
- Securing CI/CD runner identities and ephemeral agents
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained permissions
- Session recording and monitoring for privileged access
Module 7: Threat Detection & Incident Response - Building a detection-first security culture
- Instrumenting systems for high-fidelity observability
- Correlating logs, metrics, and traces for anomaly detection
- Creating detection rules for supply chain compromise
- Behavioral baselining for user and system activity
- Automated triage and prioritization of security alerts
- Incident playbooks for container escapes and privilege escalation
- Forensic readiness: preserving evidence in cloud environments
- Secure communication channels during active incidents
- Post-incident analysis and process improvement cycles
Module 8: Secure Deployment & Production Hardening - Blue-green and canary deployment safety checks
- Automated rollback triggers based on security events
- Host-level hardening with SELinux, AppArmor, and eBPF
- Runtime threat detection with Falco and similar tools
- Kernel-level security monitoring and enforcement
- Disabling insecure APIs and legacy protocols in production
- Minimizing container privileges with seccomp and capabilities
- Securing service accounts and workload identities
- Enabling signed image verification with cosign and Notary
- Automating configuration compliance at deployment time
Module 9: DevSecOps Toolchain Integration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and maturity level
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into CI workflows
- Orchestrating security scans with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions
- Centralizing security findings with vulnerability dashboards
- Automating ticket creation in Jira and ServiceNow
- Standardizing tool outputs with SARIF and CycloneDX
- Managing tool sprawl with unified security platforms
- Optimizing scan performance without sacrificing coverage
- Reducing false positives through contextual tuning
- Feedback loop design: making security actionable for developers
Module 10: Culture, Collaboration & Leadership Alignment - Breaking down silos between development, security, and operations
- Defining shared ownership of security outcomes
- Running effective security guilds and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Creating developer-centric security documentation
- Measuring team health with DevSecOps maturity metrics
- Aligning security initiatives with business objectives
- Communicating technical risk to non-technical stakeholders
- Presenting a board-ready DevSecOps business case
- Securing budget and executive sponsorship
- Building a culture of psychological safety around reporting
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Labs - Laboratory 1: Securing a CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Laboratory 2: Hardening a Kubernetes deployment with policy enforcement
- Laboratory 3: Implementing secrets management in Vault
- Laboratory 4: Detecting and blocking a simulated supply chain attack
- Laboratory 5: Hardening an AI inference API against prompt injection
- Laboratory 6: Automating compliance checks in Terraform
- Laboratory 7: Responding to a container breakout incident
- Laboratory 8: Creating and enforcing OPA policies in CI
- Laboratory 9: Integrating SAST tools with GitHub Actions
- Laboratory 10: Building a secure multi-environment deployment strategy
Module 12: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise - Designing a centralized DevSecOps enablement team
- Standardizing security tooling across business units
- Implementing guardrails for self-service infrastructure
- Managing policy consistency in hybrid and multi-cloud setups
- Scaling secure onboarding for new development teams
- Creating internal documentation hubs and playbooks
- Automating security reviews for platform-as-a-service offerings
- Measuring and reporting enterprise-wide security posture
- Integrating third-party risk assessments into pipelines
- Developing a continuous improvement roadmap for DevSecOps
Module 13: Certification & Career Advancement - How to prepare and submit your Certificate of Completion project
- Structuring a real-world DevSecOps implementation plan
- Documenting lessons learned and measurable outcomes
- Incorporating stakeholder feedback into your final submission
- Formatting guidelines for professional presentation
- How The Art of Service evaluates certification submissions
- Leveraging your certification on LinkedIn and resumes
- Positioning yourself for senior, lead, or architect roles
- Bonus: Template for a DevSecOps maturity assessment report
- Bonus: Ready-to-use board presentation deck for funding requests
- Translating regulatory requirements into executable policies
- Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) for declarative security rules
- Enforcing compliance in Terraform and CloudFormation templates
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS controls at scale
- Continuous compliance monitoring with real-time alerting
- Policy versioning and change tracking for audit readiness
- Integrating compliance checks into pull request workflows
- Generating compliance evidence without manual effort
- Custom rule creation for organization-specific mandates
- Policy drift remediation and auto-healing workflows
Module 6: Identity, Access, and Secrets Management - Modern identity federation with SSO and OIDC
- MFA enforcement across developer and production environments
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Implementing short-lived credentials and tokens
- Centralized secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Dynamic secrets provisioning for databases and APIs
- Secrets lifecycle automation: rotation, revocation, and audit
- Securing CI/CD runner identities and ephemeral agents
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained permissions
- Session recording and monitoring for privileged access
Module 7: Threat Detection & Incident Response - Building a detection-first security culture
- Instrumenting systems for high-fidelity observability
- Correlating logs, metrics, and traces for anomaly detection
- Creating detection rules for supply chain compromise
- Behavioral baselining for user and system activity
- Automated triage and prioritization of security alerts
- Incident playbooks for container escapes and privilege escalation
- Forensic readiness: preserving evidence in cloud environments
- Secure communication channels during active incidents
- Post-incident analysis and process improvement cycles
Module 8: Secure Deployment & Production Hardening - Blue-green and canary deployment safety checks
- Automated rollback triggers based on security events
- Host-level hardening with SELinux, AppArmor, and eBPF
- Runtime threat detection with Falco and similar tools
- Kernel-level security monitoring and enforcement
- Disabling insecure APIs and legacy protocols in production
- Minimizing container privileges with seccomp and capabilities
- Securing service accounts and workload identities
- Enabling signed image verification with cosign and Notary
- Automating configuration compliance at deployment time
Module 9: DevSecOps Toolchain Integration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and maturity level
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into CI workflows
- Orchestrating security scans with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions
- Centralizing security findings with vulnerability dashboards
- Automating ticket creation in Jira and ServiceNow
- Standardizing tool outputs with SARIF and CycloneDX
- Managing tool sprawl with unified security platforms
- Optimizing scan performance without sacrificing coverage
- Reducing false positives through contextual tuning
- Feedback loop design: making security actionable for developers
Module 10: Culture, Collaboration & Leadership Alignment - Breaking down silos between development, security, and operations
- Defining shared ownership of security outcomes
- Running effective security guilds and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Creating developer-centric security documentation
- Measuring team health with DevSecOps maturity metrics
- Aligning security initiatives with business objectives
- Communicating technical risk to non-technical stakeholders
- Presenting a board-ready DevSecOps business case
- Securing budget and executive sponsorship
- Building a culture of psychological safety around reporting
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Labs - Laboratory 1: Securing a CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Laboratory 2: Hardening a Kubernetes deployment with policy enforcement
- Laboratory 3: Implementing secrets management in Vault
- Laboratory 4: Detecting and blocking a simulated supply chain attack
- Laboratory 5: Hardening an AI inference API against prompt injection
- Laboratory 6: Automating compliance checks in Terraform
- Laboratory 7: Responding to a container breakout incident
- Laboratory 8: Creating and enforcing OPA policies in CI
- Laboratory 9: Integrating SAST tools with GitHub Actions
- Laboratory 10: Building a secure multi-environment deployment strategy
Module 12: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise - Designing a centralized DevSecOps enablement team
- Standardizing security tooling across business units
- Implementing guardrails for self-service infrastructure
- Managing policy consistency in hybrid and multi-cloud setups
- Scaling secure onboarding for new development teams
- Creating internal documentation hubs and playbooks
- Automating security reviews for platform-as-a-service offerings
- Measuring and reporting enterprise-wide security posture
- Integrating third-party risk assessments into pipelines
- Developing a continuous improvement roadmap for DevSecOps
Module 13: Certification & Career Advancement - How to prepare and submit your Certificate of Completion project
- Structuring a real-world DevSecOps implementation plan
- Documenting lessons learned and measurable outcomes
- Incorporating stakeholder feedback into your final submission
- Formatting guidelines for professional presentation
- How The Art of Service evaluates certification submissions
- Leveraging your certification on LinkedIn and resumes
- Positioning yourself for senior, lead, or architect roles
- Bonus: Template for a DevSecOps maturity assessment report
- Bonus: Ready-to-use board presentation deck for funding requests
- Building a detection-first security culture
- Instrumenting systems for high-fidelity observability
- Correlating logs, metrics, and traces for anomaly detection
- Creating detection rules for supply chain compromise
- Behavioral baselining for user and system activity
- Automated triage and prioritization of security alerts
- Incident playbooks for container escapes and privilege escalation
- Forensic readiness: preserving evidence in cloud environments
- Secure communication channels during active incidents
- Post-incident analysis and process improvement cycles
Module 8: Secure Deployment & Production Hardening - Blue-green and canary deployment safety checks
- Automated rollback triggers based on security events
- Host-level hardening with SELinux, AppArmor, and eBPF
- Runtime threat detection with Falco and similar tools
- Kernel-level security monitoring and enforcement
- Disabling insecure APIs and legacy protocols in production
- Minimizing container privileges with seccomp and capabilities
- Securing service accounts and workload identities
- Enabling signed image verification with cosign and Notary
- Automating configuration compliance at deployment time
Module 9: DevSecOps Toolchain Integration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and maturity level
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into CI workflows
- Orchestrating security scans with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions
- Centralizing security findings with vulnerability dashboards
- Automating ticket creation in Jira and ServiceNow
- Standardizing tool outputs with SARIF and CycloneDX
- Managing tool sprawl with unified security platforms
- Optimizing scan performance without sacrificing coverage
- Reducing false positives through contextual tuning
- Feedback loop design: making security actionable for developers
Module 10: Culture, Collaboration & Leadership Alignment - Breaking down silos between development, security, and operations
- Defining shared ownership of security outcomes
- Running effective security guilds and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Creating developer-centric security documentation
- Measuring team health with DevSecOps maturity metrics
- Aligning security initiatives with business objectives
- Communicating technical risk to non-technical stakeholders
- Presenting a board-ready DevSecOps business case
- Securing budget and executive sponsorship
- Building a culture of psychological safety around reporting
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Labs - Laboratory 1: Securing a CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Laboratory 2: Hardening a Kubernetes deployment with policy enforcement
- Laboratory 3: Implementing secrets management in Vault
- Laboratory 4: Detecting and blocking a simulated supply chain attack
- Laboratory 5: Hardening an AI inference API against prompt injection
- Laboratory 6: Automating compliance checks in Terraform
- Laboratory 7: Responding to a container breakout incident
- Laboratory 8: Creating and enforcing OPA policies in CI
- Laboratory 9: Integrating SAST tools with GitHub Actions
- Laboratory 10: Building a secure multi-environment deployment strategy
Module 12: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise - Designing a centralized DevSecOps enablement team
- Standardizing security tooling across business units
- Implementing guardrails for self-service infrastructure
- Managing policy consistency in hybrid and multi-cloud setups
- Scaling secure onboarding for new development teams
- Creating internal documentation hubs and playbooks
- Automating security reviews for platform-as-a-service offerings
- Measuring and reporting enterprise-wide security posture
- Integrating third-party risk assessments into pipelines
- Developing a continuous improvement roadmap for DevSecOps
Module 13: Certification & Career Advancement - How to prepare and submit your Certificate of Completion project
- Structuring a real-world DevSecOps implementation plan
- Documenting lessons learned and measurable outcomes
- Incorporating stakeholder feedback into your final submission
- Formatting guidelines for professional presentation
- How The Art of Service evaluates certification submissions
- Leveraging your certification on LinkedIn and resumes
- Positioning yourself for senior, lead, or architect roles
- Bonus: Template for a DevSecOps maturity assessment report
- Bonus: Ready-to-use board presentation deck for funding requests
- Selecting the right tools for your stack and maturity level
- Integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into CI workflows
- Orchestrating security scans with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions
- Centralizing security findings with vulnerability dashboards
- Automating ticket creation in Jira and ServiceNow
- Standardizing tool outputs with SARIF and CycloneDX
- Managing tool sprawl with unified security platforms
- Optimizing scan performance without sacrificing coverage
- Reducing false positives through contextual tuning
- Feedback loop design: making security actionable for developers
Module 10: Culture, Collaboration & Leadership Alignment - Breaking down silos between development, security, and operations
- Defining shared ownership of security outcomes
- Running effective security guilds and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Creating developer-centric security documentation
- Measuring team health with DevSecOps maturity metrics
- Aligning security initiatives with business objectives
- Communicating technical risk to non-technical stakeholders
- Presenting a board-ready DevSecOps business case
- Securing budget and executive sponsorship
- Building a culture of psychological safety around reporting
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Labs - Laboratory 1: Securing a CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Laboratory 2: Hardening a Kubernetes deployment with policy enforcement
- Laboratory 3: Implementing secrets management in Vault
- Laboratory 4: Detecting and blocking a simulated supply chain attack
- Laboratory 5: Hardening an AI inference API against prompt injection
- Laboratory 6: Automating compliance checks in Terraform
- Laboratory 7: Responding to a container breakout incident
- Laboratory 8: Creating and enforcing OPA policies in CI
- Laboratory 9: Integrating SAST tools with GitHub Actions
- Laboratory 10: Building a secure multi-environment deployment strategy
Module 12: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise - Designing a centralized DevSecOps enablement team
- Standardizing security tooling across business units
- Implementing guardrails for self-service infrastructure
- Managing policy consistency in hybrid and multi-cloud setups
- Scaling secure onboarding for new development teams
- Creating internal documentation hubs and playbooks
- Automating security reviews for platform-as-a-service offerings
- Measuring and reporting enterprise-wide security posture
- Integrating third-party risk assessments into pipelines
- Developing a continuous improvement roadmap for DevSecOps
Module 13: Certification & Career Advancement - How to prepare and submit your Certificate of Completion project
- Structuring a real-world DevSecOps implementation plan
- Documenting lessons learned and measurable outcomes
- Incorporating stakeholder feedback into your final submission
- Formatting guidelines for professional presentation
- How The Art of Service evaluates certification submissions
- Leveraging your certification on LinkedIn and resumes
- Positioning yourself for senior, lead, or architect roles
- Bonus: Template for a DevSecOps maturity assessment report
- Bonus: Ready-to-use board presentation deck for funding requests
- Laboratory 1: Securing a CI/CD pipeline from scratch
- Laboratory 2: Hardening a Kubernetes deployment with policy enforcement
- Laboratory 3: Implementing secrets management in Vault
- Laboratory 4: Detecting and blocking a simulated supply chain attack
- Laboratory 5: Hardening an AI inference API against prompt injection
- Laboratory 6: Automating compliance checks in Terraform
- Laboratory 7: Responding to a container breakout incident
- Laboratory 8: Creating and enforcing OPA policies in CI
- Laboratory 9: Integrating SAST tools with GitHub Actions
- Laboratory 10: Building a secure multi-environment deployment strategy
Module 12: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise - Designing a centralized DevSecOps enablement team
- Standardizing security tooling across business units
- Implementing guardrails for self-service infrastructure
- Managing policy consistency in hybrid and multi-cloud setups
- Scaling secure onboarding for new development teams
- Creating internal documentation hubs and playbooks
- Automating security reviews for platform-as-a-service offerings
- Measuring and reporting enterprise-wide security posture
- Integrating third-party risk assessments into pipelines
- Developing a continuous improvement roadmap for DevSecOps
Module 13: Certification & Career Advancement - How to prepare and submit your Certificate of Completion project
- Structuring a real-world DevSecOps implementation plan
- Documenting lessons learned and measurable outcomes
- Incorporating stakeholder feedback into your final submission
- Formatting guidelines for professional presentation
- How The Art of Service evaluates certification submissions
- Leveraging your certification on LinkedIn and resumes
- Positioning yourself for senior, lead, or architect roles
- Bonus: Template for a DevSecOps maturity assessment report
- Bonus: Ready-to-use board presentation deck for funding requests
- How to prepare and submit your Certificate of Completion project
- Structuring a real-world DevSecOps implementation plan
- Documenting lessons learned and measurable outcomes
- Incorporating stakeholder feedback into your final submission
- Formatting guidelines for professional presentation
- How The Art of Service evaluates certification submissions
- Leveraging your certification on LinkedIn and resumes
- Positioning yourself for senior, lead, or architect roles
- Bonus: Template for a DevSecOps maturity assessment report
- Bonus: Ready-to-use board presentation deck for funding requests