Mastering DevSecOps: Secure, Scalable Software in the Age of Automation
You're under pressure. Security vulnerabilities are no longer just IT issues-they're boardroom headlines. One breach can cost millions, destroy trust, and derail careers. You know your software pipeline needs transformation, but where do you start? Manual checks slow delivery. Reactive patching fails under scale. And traditional security models collapse in dynamic, automated environments. Meanwhile, the industry is shifting. Companies that have embedded security into every phase of development-before, during, and after deployment-are moving faster, passing audits with confidence, and gaining investor trust. They’re not just avoiding risk, they’re turning security into a competitive advantage. Mastering DevSecOps: Secure, Scalable Software in the Age of Automation is your proven blueprint to close the gap between scattered tools and cohesive, resilient delivery. This isn’t about theory-it’s about execution. By the end, you’ll have designed and implemented a fully automated, secure software pipeline, complete with policy enforcement, compliance validation, and real-time threat response-all documented in a professional portfolio piece you can present to leadership. A senior DevOps engineer at a Fortune 500 financial firm used this exact framework to reduce critical vulnerabilities by 92% in under 10 weeks. Her team now deploys hourly with zero high-severity findings in production. She was promoted six months later. If you’re tired of playing catch-up with threats, if you want to stop being the bottleneck, and if you’re ready to lead the shift from reactive firefighting to proactive resilience, this is your turning point. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details: Learn Without Limits, Advance with Confidence Self-Paced, Immediate Online Access
You begin the moment you enrol. No waiting for cohorts, no fixed schedules. Every component of Mastering DevSecOps is available on-demand. You control when, where, and how you learn-perfect for full-time engineers, architects, and team leads balancing real-world delivery. Typical Completion & Fast Results
Most learners complete the core implementation projects in 4 to 6 weeks with 6–8 hours per week. Many apply their first secure pipeline configuration within the first 72 hours. The fastest documented implementation of a full CI/CD security gate was done in under 5 days. Lifetime Access, Continuous Updates
Technology evolves. Your training should too. Once enrolled, you receive permanent access to all course materials, including every future update. New integrations, compliance standards, and tooling enhancements are added at no extra cost. This is not a time-limited package-it’s a lifelong resource. 24/7 Global, Mobile-Friendly Access
Learn on your laptop, iPad, or smartphone. All content is optimised for clarity and functionality across devices. Make progress during commutes, downtime, or late-night deep dives-wherever your workflow takes you. Direct Instructor Guidance & Support
Every learner receives structured support through curated Q&A pathways and expert-reviewed implementation templates. You’re not navigating complex configurations alone. Real guidance is embedded at critical junctures-threat modelling, policy-as-code setup, audit readiness, and regulatory alignment. Support is designed to reduce friction, accelerate validation, and ensure professional-grade outcomes. Internationally Recognised Certificate of Completion
Upon successfully completing all core projects and assessments, you will receive a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This credential is trusted by professionals in 138 countries, recognised by hiring managers in cybersecurity, cloud engineering, and DevOps leadership roles. It’s not just proof of effort-it’s proof of execution. No Hidden Fees. Transparent, One-Time Investment.
The listed price covers everything. No surprise renewals, no upsells, no premium tiers. You get full access to all materials, tools, templates, updates, and certification-forever. Accepted payment methods: Visa, Mastercard, PayPal. 100% Satisfied or Refunded-Zero-Risk Enrollment
If, within 30 days, you find the course does not meet your expectations for depth, practicality, or professional impact, simply let us know. You’ll receive a full refund, no questions asked. We remove the risk so you can focus entirely on transformation. What Happens After Enrollment?
After registration, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your access details and onboarding pathway will be delivered separately once your learner profile is fully processed and course materials are prepared for your use. Processing is standard and ensures system integrity and access readiness. “Will This Work For Me?” – Objection-Crushing Reassurance
This program works even if:
– You’re new to security automation but experienced in CI/CD.
– Your organisation uses legacy tools and resists change.
– You’ve tried DevSecOps before and stalled at integration.
– You work in a regulated industry with strict compliance demands. With role-specific templates for security engineers, platform architects, release managers, and SREs, the curriculum adapts to your context. You’ll follow a step-by-step path refined through thousands of successful implementations across finance, healthcare, SaaS, and critical infrastructure. One infrastructure lead in a government contractor agency used the compliance automation module to reduce SOC 2 audit preparation from 6 weeks to 8 days. His template is now standard across 11 teams. This isn’t about learning in isolation. It’s about delivering visible, measurable impact-fast, safely, and sustainably.
Module 1: Foundations of Modern DevSecOps - Defining DevSecOps in the context of CI/CD and cloud-native environments
- Mapping the evolution from waterfall security to shift-left integration
- Understanding the DevSecOps maturity model: from ad hoc to embedded
- Analysing real-world breach case studies and their pipeline root causes
- Integrating security into developer workflows without slowing delivery
- Key principles: automation, observability, defence-in-depth, least privilege
- Differentiating DevSecOps from traditional AppSec and IT security
- Risk-based prioritisation in fast-moving development cycles
- Balancing speed, scalability, and compliance across distributed teams
- Establishing shared ownership models between dev, ops, and security
Module 2: Security-First CI/CD Pipeline Architecture - Designing pipelines with built-in security decision points
- Implementing approval gates with time-based and risk-based triggers
- Embedding environment-specific security policies in pipeline code
- Architecting multi-tiered deployment workflows with rollback safeguards
- Using branching strategies to enforce security testing paths
- Integrating automated vulnerability baselines into merge requests
- Setting up pre-commit hooks for secret detection and config validation
- Defining pipeline ownership and audit trails across roles
- Mapping pipeline stages to NIST and ISO control requirements
- Creating pipeline health dashboards with real-time compliance status
Module 3: Secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Practices - Analysing Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi for security exposure
- Implementing pre-deployment IaC scanning with open and commercial tools
- Creating custom rulesets for detecting public S3 buckets, open security groups
- Managing drift detection and policy enforcement in live environments
- Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego for custom compliance logic
- Integrating IaC scanning into pull request workflows
- Template standardisation across teams using policy bundles
- Versioning IaC configurations with semantic tagging and changelogs
- Managing secrets within IaC: safe patterns vs dangerous anti-patterns
- Automating drift remediation with scheduled validation jobs
Module 4: Dependency and Supply Chain Security - Analysing open-source risk: license, vulnerability, and maintenance status
- Scanning dependencies with Snyk, Dependency-Check, and CLI tools
- Interpreting CVSS scores in context of actual exploitability
- Creating allow/deny lists for third-party libraries
- Integrating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation into pipelines
- Using CycloneDX and SPDX formats for audit-ready reporting
- Monitoring for newly disclosed vulnerabilities in active dependencies
- Locking dependency versions with checksum validation
- Validating provenance in artifact repositories with Sigstore and Cosign
- Enforcing supply chain security with SLSA framework levels
Module 5: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Integration - Selecting the right SAST tool for your language stack and repo size
- Reducing false positives with context-aware rule configurations
- Configuring incremental SAST scans for pull requests only
- Creating custom rules for business logic vulnerabilities
- Integrating SonarQube, Semgrep, and CodeQL into CI workflows
- Setting severity thresholds for pipeline blocking
- Generating vulnerability trend reports for sprint retrospectives
- Excluding false positives with documented rationale
- Onboarding legacy codebases with phased SAST enablement
- Optimising scan performance with caching and parallelisation
Module 6: Dynamic and Interactive Application Security Testing (DAST/IAST) - Differentiating DAST, IAST, and runtime application self-protection (RASP)
- Setting up headless browsers for automated penetration testing
- Configuring OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite for scheduled CI scans
- Managing test environments with isolated, seeded data
- Using browser automation scripts to traverse complex workflows
- Automating login sequences for authenticated scanning
- Analysing DAST results with risk context and exploit likelihood
- Integrating IAST agents into staging deployments
- Setting time-based scan windows to prevent environment overload
- Generating executive summary reports for non-technical stakeholders
Module 7: Container and Kubernetes Security - Securing Dockerfiles: minimising base image attack surface
- Enforcing non-root user execution and read-only filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Signing images with Notation and verifying in deployment pipelines
- Analysing Kubernetes manifests for privilege escalation risks
- Enforcing Pod Security Standards with policy controllers
- Implementing network policies to restrict microservice communication
- Using Falco and audit logs for runtime anomaly detection
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane configurations
- Automating CIS benchmark checks across clusters
Module 8: Secrets Management and Identity Security - Comparing secrets management tools: HashiCorp Vault vs AWS Secrets Manager
- Injecting secrets into containers at runtime using sidecar proxies
- Managing short-lived credentials with dynamic secrets engines
- Rotating secrets automatically with scheduled jobs and triggers
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, error messages, and CLI history
- Using identity-based access instead of static API keys
- Integrating workload identity with cloud IAM systems
- Implementing Just-In-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Monitoring for anomalous access patterns using audit log analysis
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication at infrastructure control points
Module 9: Compliance Automation and Audit Readiness - Mapping CI/CD security controls to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001
- Automating evidence collection for required controls
- Generating time-stamped, tamper-evident logs for every pipeline run
- Creating compliance-as-code templates for repeatable audits
- Using InSpec and Chef Automate for infrastructure compliance testing
- Embedding regulatory checks into deployment gates
- Producing audit reports with automated narrative generation
- Managing access logs and role changes with immutable storage
- Configuring retention policies for compliance artifacts
- Preparing for third-party auditor reviews with standardised documentation
Module 10: Security Metrics, Monitoring, and Feedback Loops - Defining KPIs: mean time to detect, mean time to remediate, fix rate
- Building security dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus
- Creating developer feedback mechanisms for vulnerability ownership
- Integrating security findings into ticketing and sprint planning
- Measuring reduction in high-severity vulnerabilities over time
- Reporting security posture to leadership using risk heatmaps
- Setting up alerts for policy violations and unexpected deployments
- Using feedback loops to improve tooling accuracy and relevance
- Tracking adoption rates across teams and repos
- Establishing monthly security health reviews with engineering leads
Module 11: Threat Modelling and Risk Assessment - Conducting STRIDE-based threat modelling at design phase
- Using data flow diagrams to identify interception and tampering points
- Automating threat model outputs with custom scripts and templates
- Integrating threat model findings into user story acceptance criteria
- Prioritising risks using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Creating threat model repositories for system reusability
- Updating threat models with each architectural change
- Training developers to self-identify common attack vectors
- Generating traceability matrices from threats to controls
- Conducting lightweight threat reviews in sprint planning
Module 12: Secure Deployment and Production Hardening - Implementing blue/green and canary deployments with security validation
- Embedding automated security checks in production promotion gates
- Using feature flags with built-in access and usage logging
- Validating TLS configuration and certificate expiry in live environments
- Automating firewall rule reviews and port closure
- Ensuring all production services run with minimal required privileges
- Disabling debug endpoints and admin interfaces in production
- Removing default accounts and passwords from deployed systems
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption modules where required
- Conducting post-deployment security verification scans
Module 13: Incident Response and Post-Breach Automation - Creating automated incident playbooks for common DevSecOps scenarios
- Integrating SIEM systems with deployment pipelines for correlation
- Triggering rollback procedures based on security event detection
- Automating forensic data collection: logs, images, configurations
- Generating incident timelines with pipeline and system events
- Using immutable logs to preserve chain of custody
- Configuring auto-quarantine for compromised workloads
- Notifying response teams via Slack, email, and pagers
- Running root cause analysis templates with structured prompts
- Publishing incident summaries with redacted technical details
Module 14: Building a DevSecOps Culture and Change Management - Overcoming resistance to security in agile and DevOps teams
- Running effective security guilds and chapter meetings
- Creating security champions programs with mentorship paths
- Developing onboarding materials for new engineers
- Measuring team security maturity with self-assessment tools
- Integrating security into performance goals and 1:1 reviews
- Running red team/blue team simulations across departments
- Encouraging vulnerability disclosure and blameless retrospectives
- Communicating security wins and risk reductions to leadership
- Scaling cultural change across multiple business units
Module 15: Advanced Automation and AI-Powered Security - Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Defining DevSecOps in the context of CI/CD and cloud-native environments
- Mapping the evolution from waterfall security to shift-left integration
- Understanding the DevSecOps maturity model: from ad hoc to embedded
- Analysing real-world breach case studies and their pipeline root causes
- Integrating security into developer workflows without slowing delivery
- Key principles: automation, observability, defence-in-depth, least privilege
- Differentiating DevSecOps from traditional AppSec and IT security
- Risk-based prioritisation in fast-moving development cycles
- Balancing speed, scalability, and compliance across distributed teams
- Establishing shared ownership models between dev, ops, and security
Module 2: Security-First CI/CD Pipeline Architecture - Designing pipelines with built-in security decision points
- Implementing approval gates with time-based and risk-based triggers
- Embedding environment-specific security policies in pipeline code
- Architecting multi-tiered deployment workflows with rollback safeguards
- Using branching strategies to enforce security testing paths
- Integrating automated vulnerability baselines into merge requests
- Setting up pre-commit hooks for secret detection and config validation
- Defining pipeline ownership and audit trails across roles
- Mapping pipeline stages to NIST and ISO control requirements
- Creating pipeline health dashboards with real-time compliance status
Module 3: Secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Practices - Analysing Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi for security exposure
- Implementing pre-deployment IaC scanning with open and commercial tools
- Creating custom rulesets for detecting public S3 buckets, open security groups
- Managing drift detection and policy enforcement in live environments
- Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego for custom compliance logic
- Integrating IaC scanning into pull request workflows
- Template standardisation across teams using policy bundles
- Versioning IaC configurations with semantic tagging and changelogs
- Managing secrets within IaC: safe patterns vs dangerous anti-patterns
- Automating drift remediation with scheduled validation jobs
Module 4: Dependency and Supply Chain Security - Analysing open-source risk: license, vulnerability, and maintenance status
- Scanning dependencies with Snyk, Dependency-Check, and CLI tools
- Interpreting CVSS scores in context of actual exploitability
- Creating allow/deny lists for third-party libraries
- Integrating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation into pipelines
- Using CycloneDX and SPDX formats for audit-ready reporting
- Monitoring for newly disclosed vulnerabilities in active dependencies
- Locking dependency versions with checksum validation
- Validating provenance in artifact repositories with Sigstore and Cosign
- Enforcing supply chain security with SLSA framework levels
Module 5: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Integration - Selecting the right SAST tool for your language stack and repo size
- Reducing false positives with context-aware rule configurations
- Configuring incremental SAST scans for pull requests only
- Creating custom rules for business logic vulnerabilities
- Integrating SonarQube, Semgrep, and CodeQL into CI workflows
- Setting severity thresholds for pipeline blocking
- Generating vulnerability trend reports for sprint retrospectives
- Excluding false positives with documented rationale
- Onboarding legacy codebases with phased SAST enablement
- Optimising scan performance with caching and parallelisation
Module 6: Dynamic and Interactive Application Security Testing (DAST/IAST) - Differentiating DAST, IAST, and runtime application self-protection (RASP)
- Setting up headless browsers for automated penetration testing
- Configuring OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite for scheduled CI scans
- Managing test environments with isolated, seeded data
- Using browser automation scripts to traverse complex workflows
- Automating login sequences for authenticated scanning
- Analysing DAST results with risk context and exploit likelihood
- Integrating IAST agents into staging deployments
- Setting time-based scan windows to prevent environment overload
- Generating executive summary reports for non-technical stakeholders
Module 7: Container and Kubernetes Security - Securing Dockerfiles: minimising base image attack surface
- Enforcing non-root user execution and read-only filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Signing images with Notation and verifying in deployment pipelines
- Analysing Kubernetes manifests for privilege escalation risks
- Enforcing Pod Security Standards with policy controllers
- Implementing network policies to restrict microservice communication
- Using Falco and audit logs for runtime anomaly detection
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane configurations
- Automating CIS benchmark checks across clusters
Module 8: Secrets Management and Identity Security - Comparing secrets management tools: HashiCorp Vault vs AWS Secrets Manager
- Injecting secrets into containers at runtime using sidecar proxies
- Managing short-lived credentials with dynamic secrets engines
- Rotating secrets automatically with scheduled jobs and triggers
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, error messages, and CLI history
- Using identity-based access instead of static API keys
- Integrating workload identity with cloud IAM systems
- Implementing Just-In-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Monitoring for anomalous access patterns using audit log analysis
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication at infrastructure control points
Module 9: Compliance Automation and Audit Readiness - Mapping CI/CD security controls to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001
- Automating evidence collection for required controls
- Generating time-stamped, tamper-evident logs for every pipeline run
- Creating compliance-as-code templates for repeatable audits
- Using InSpec and Chef Automate for infrastructure compliance testing
- Embedding regulatory checks into deployment gates
- Producing audit reports with automated narrative generation
- Managing access logs and role changes with immutable storage
- Configuring retention policies for compliance artifacts
- Preparing for third-party auditor reviews with standardised documentation
Module 10: Security Metrics, Monitoring, and Feedback Loops - Defining KPIs: mean time to detect, mean time to remediate, fix rate
- Building security dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus
- Creating developer feedback mechanisms for vulnerability ownership
- Integrating security findings into ticketing and sprint planning
- Measuring reduction in high-severity vulnerabilities over time
- Reporting security posture to leadership using risk heatmaps
- Setting up alerts for policy violations and unexpected deployments
- Using feedback loops to improve tooling accuracy and relevance
- Tracking adoption rates across teams and repos
- Establishing monthly security health reviews with engineering leads
Module 11: Threat Modelling and Risk Assessment - Conducting STRIDE-based threat modelling at design phase
- Using data flow diagrams to identify interception and tampering points
- Automating threat model outputs with custom scripts and templates
- Integrating threat model findings into user story acceptance criteria
- Prioritising risks using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Creating threat model repositories for system reusability
- Updating threat models with each architectural change
- Training developers to self-identify common attack vectors
- Generating traceability matrices from threats to controls
- Conducting lightweight threat reviews in sprint planning
Module 12: Secure Deployment and Production Hardening - Implementing blue/green and canary deployments with security validation
- Embedding automated security checks in production promotion gates
- Using feature flags with built-in access and usage logging
- Validating TLS configuration and certificate expiry in live environments
- Automating firewall rule reviews and port closure
- Ensuring all production services run with minimal required privileges
- Disabling debug endpoints and admin interfaces in production
- Removing default accounts and passwords from deployed systems
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption modules where required
- Conducting post-deployment security verification scans
Module 13: Incident Response and Post-Breach Automation - Creating automated incident playbooks for common DevSecOps scenarios
- Integrating SIEM systems with deployment pipelines for correlation
- Triggering rollback procedures based on security event detection
- Automating forensic data collection: logs, images, configurations
- Generating incident timelines with pipeline and system events
- Using immutable logs to preserve chain of custody
- Configuring auto-quarantine for compromised workloads
- Notifying response teams via Slack, email, and pagers
- Running root cause analysis templates with structured prompts
- Publishing incident summaries with redacted technical details
Module 14: Building a DevSecOps Culture and Change Management - Overcoming resistance to security in agile and DevOps teams
- Running effective security guilds and chapter meetings
- Creating security champions programs with mentorship paths
- Developing onboarding materials for new engineers
- Measuring team security maturity with self-assessment tools
- Integrating security into performance goals and 1:1 reviews
- Running red team/blue team simulations across departments
- Encouraging vulnerability disclosure and blameless retrospectives
- Communicating security wins and risk reductions to leadership
- Scaling cultural change across multiple business units
Module 15: Advanced Automation and AI-Powered Security - Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Analysing Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi for security exposure
- Implementing pre-deployment IaC scanning with open and commercial tools
- Creating custom rulesets for detecting public S3 buckets, open security groups
- Managing drift detection and policy enforcement in live environments
- Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego for custom compliance logic
- Integrating IaC scanning into pull request workflows
- Template standardisation across teams using policy bundles
- Versioning IaC configurations with semantic tagging and changelogs
- Managing secrets within IaC: safe patterns vs dangerous anti-patterns
- Automating drift remediation with scheduled validation jobs
Module 4: Dependency and Supply Chain Security - Analysing open-source risk: license, vulnerability, and maintenance status
- Scanning dependencies with Snyk, Dependency-Check, and CLI tools
- Interpreting CVSS scores in context of actual exploitability
- Creating allow/deny lists for third-party libraries
- Integrating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation into pipelines
- Using CycloneDX and SPDX formats for audit-ready reporting
- Monitoring for newly disclosed vulnerabilities in active dependencies
- Locking dependency versions with checksum validation
- Validating provenance in artifact repositories with Sigstore and Cosign
- Enforcing supply chain security with SLSA framework levels
Module 5: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Integration - Selecting the right SAST tool for your language stack and repo size
- Reducing false positives with context-aware rule configurations
- Configuring incremental SAST scans for pull requests only
- Creating custom rules for business logic vulnerabilities
- Integrating SonarQube, Semgrep, and CodeQL into CI workflows
- Setting severity thresholds for pipeline blocking
- Generating vulnerability trend reports for sprint retrospectives
- Excluding false positives with documented rationale
- Onboarding legacy codebases with phased SAST enablement
- Optimising scan performance with caching and parallelisation
Module 6: Dynamic and Interactive Application Security Testing (DAST/IAST) - Differentiating DAST, IAST, and runtime application self-protection (RASP)
- Setting up headless browsers for automated penetration testing
- Configuring OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite for scheduled CI scans
- Managing test environments with isolated, seeded data
- Using browser automation scripts to traverse complex workflows
- Automating login sequences for authenticated scanning
- Analysing DAST results with risk context and exploit likelihood
- Integrating IAST agents into staging deployments
- Setting time-based scan windows to prevent environment overload
- Generating executive summary reports for non-technical stakeholders
Module 7: Container and Kubernetes Security - Securing Dockerfiles: minimising base image attack surface
- Enforcing non-root user execution and read-only filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Signing images with Notation and verifying in deployment pipelines
- Analysing Kubernetes manifests for privilege escalation risks
- Enforcing Pod Security Standards with policy controllers
- Implementing network policies to restrict microservice communication
- Using Falco and audit logs for runtime anomaly detection
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane configurations
- Automating CIS benchmark checks across clusters
Module 8: Secrets Management and Identity Security - Comparing secrets management tools: HashiCorp Vault vs AWS Secrets Manager
- Injecting secrets into containers at runtime using sidecar proxies
- Managing short-lived credentials with dynamic secrets engines
- Rotating secrets automatically with scheduled jobs and triggers
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, error messages, and CLI history
- Using identity-based access instead of static API keys
- Integrating workload identity with cloud IAM systems
- Implementing Just-In-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Monitoring for anomalous access patterns using audit log analysis
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication at infrastructure control points
Module 9: Compliance Automation and Audit Readiness - Mapping CI/CD security controls to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001
- Automating evidence collection for required controls
- Generating time-stamped, tamper-evident logs for every pipeline run
- Creating compliance-as-code templates for repeatable audits
- Using InSpec and Chef Automate for infrastructure compliance testing
- Embedding regulatory checks into deployment gates
- Producing audit reports with automated narrative generation
- Managing access logs and role changes with immutable storage
- Configuring retention policies for compliance artifacts
- Preparing for third-party auditor reviews with standardised documentation
Module 10: Security Metrics, Monitoring, and Feedback Loops - Defining KPIs: mean time to detect, mean time to remediate, fix rate
- Building security dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus
- Creating developer feedback mechanisms for vulnerability ownership
- Integrating security findings into ticketing and sprint planning
- Measuring reduction in high-severity vulnerabilities over time
- Reporting security posture to leadership using risk heatmaps
- Setting up alerts for policy violations and unexpected deployments
- Using feedback loops to improve tooling accuracy and relevance
- Tracking adoption rates across teams and repos
- Establishing monthly security health reviews with engineering leads
Module 11: Threat Modelling and Risk Assessment - Conducting STRIDE-based threat modelling at design phase
- Using data flow diagrams to identify interception and tampering points
- Automating threat model outputs with custom scripts and templates
- Integrating threat model findings into user story acceptance criteria
- Prioritising risks using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Creating threat model repositories for system reusability
- Updating threat models with each architectural change
- Training developers to self-identify common attack vectors
- Generating traceability matrices from threats to controls
- Conducting lightweight threat reviews in sprint planning
Module 12: Secure Deployment and Production Hardening - Implementing blue/green and canary deployments with security validation
- Embedding automated security checks in production promotion gates
- Using feature flags with built-in access and usage logging
- Validating TLS configuration and certificate expiry in live environments
- Automating firewall rule reviews and port closure
- Ensuring all production services run with minimal required privileges
- Disabling debug endpoints and admin interfaces in production
- Removing default accounts and passwords from deployed systems
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption modules where required
- Conducting post-deployment security verification scans
Module 13: Incident Response and Post-Breach Automation - Creating automated incident playbooks for common DevSecOps scenarios
- Integrating SIEM systems with deployment pipelines for correlation
- Triggering rollback procedures based on security event detection
- Automating forensic data collection: logs, images, configurations
- Generating incident timelines with pipeline and system events
- Using immutable logs to preserve chain of custody
- Configuring auto-quarantine for compromised workloads
- Notifying response teams via Slack, email, and pagers
- Running root cause analysis templates with structured prompts
- Publishing incident summaries with redacted technical details
Module 14: Building a DevSecOps Culture and Change Management - Overcoming resistance to security in agile and DevOps teams
- Running effective security guilds and chapter meetings
- Creating security champions programs with mentorship paths
- Developing onboarding materials for new engineers
- Measuring team security maturity with self-assessment tools
- Integrating security into performance goals and 1:1 reviews
- Running red team/blue team simulations across departments
- Encouraging vulnerability disclosure and blameless retrospectives
- Communicating security wins and risk reductions to leadership
- Scaling cultural change across multiple business units
Module 15: Advanced Automation and AI-Powered Security - Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Selecting the right SAST tool for your language stack and repo size
- Reducing false positives with context-aware rule configurations
- Configuring incremental SAST scans for pull requests only
- Creating custom rules for business logic vulnerabilities
- Integrating SonarQube, Semgrep, and CodeQL into CI workflows
- Setting severity thresholds for pipeline blocking
- Generating vulnerability trend reports for sprint retrospectives
- Excluding false positives with documented rationale
- Onboarding legacy codebases with phased SAST enablement
- Optimising scan performance with caching and parallelisation
Module 6: Dynamic and Interactive Application Security Testing (DAST/IAST) - Differentiating DAST, IAST, and runtime application self-protection (RASP)
- Setting up headless browsers for automated penetration testing
- Configuring OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite for scheduled CI scans
- Managing test environments with isolated, seeded data
- Using browser automation scripts to traverse complex workflows
- Automating login sequences for authenticated scanning
- Analysing DAST results with risk context and exploit likelihood
- Integrating IAST agents into staging deployments
- Setting time-based scan windows to prevent environment overload
- Generating executive summary reports for non-technical stakeholders
Module 7: Container and Kubernetes Security - Securing Dockerfiles: minimising base image attack surface
- Enforcing non-root user execution and read-only filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Signing images with Notation and verifying in deployment pipelines
- Analysing Kubernetes manifests for privilege escalation risks
- Enforcing Pod Security Standards with policy controllers
- Implementing network policies to restrict microservice communication
- Using Falco and audit logs for runtime anomaly detection
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane configurations
- Automating CIS benchmark checks across clusters
Module 8: Secrets Management and Identity Security - Comparing secrets management tools: HashiCorp Vault vs AWS Secrets Manager
- Injecting secrets into containers at runtime using sidecar proxies
- Managing short-lived credentials with dynamic secrets engines
- Rotating secrets automatically with scheduled jobs and triggers
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, error messages, and CLI history
- Using identity-based access instead of static API keys
- Integrating workload identity with cloud IAM systems
- Implementing Just-In-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Monitoring for anomalous access patterns using audit log analysis
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication at infrastructure control points
Module 9: Compliance Automation and Audit Readiness - Mapping CI/CD security controls to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001
- Automating evidence collection for required controls
- Generating time-stamped, tamper-evident logs for every pipeline run
- Creating compliance-as-code templates for repeatable audits
- Using InSpec and Chef Automate for infrastructure compliance testing
- Embedding regulatory checks into deployment gates
- Producing audit reports with automated narrative generation
- Managing access logs and role changes with immutable storage
- Configuring retention policies for compliance artifacts
- Preparing for third-party auditor reviews with standardised documentation
Module 10: Security Metrics, Monitoring, and Feedback Loops - Defining KPIs: mean time to detect, mean time to remediate, fix rate
- Building security dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus
- Creating developer feedback mechanisms for vulnerability ownership
- Integrating security findings into ticketing and sprint planning
- Measuring reduction in high-severity vulnerabilities over time
- Reporting security posture to leadership using risk heatmaps
- Setting up alerts for policy violations and unexpected deployments
- Using feedback loops to improve tooling accuracy and relevance
- Tracking adoption rates across teams and repos
- Establishing monthly security health reviews with engineering leads
Module 11: Threat Modelling and Risk Assessment - Conducting STRIDE-based threat modelling at design phase
- Using data flow diagrams to identify interception and tampering points
- Automating threat model outputs with custom scripts and templates
- Integrating threat model findings into user story acceptance criteria
- Prioritising risks using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Creating threat model repositories for system reusability
- Updating threat models with each architectural change
- Training developers to self-identify common attack vectors
- Generating traceability matrices from threats to controls
- Conducting lightweight threat reviews in sprint planning
Module 12: Secure Deployment and Production Hardening - Implementing blue/green and canary deployments with security validation
- Embedding automated security checks in production promotion gates
- Using feature flags with built-in access and usage logging
- Validating TLS configuration and certificate expiry in live environments
- Automating firewall rule reviews and port closure
- Ensuring all production services run with minimal required privileges
- Disabling debug endpoints and admin interfaces in production
- Removing default accounts and passwords from deployed systems
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption modules where required
- Conducting post-deployment security verification scans
Module 13: Incident Response and Post-Breach Automation - Creating automated incident playbooks for common DevSecOps scenarios
- Integrating SIEM systems with deployment pipelines for correlation
- Triggering rollback procedures based on security event detection
- Automating forensic data collection: logs, images, configurations
- Generating incident timelines with pipeline and system events
- Using immutable logs to preserve chain of custody
- Configuring auto-quarantine for compromised workloads
- Notifying response teams via Slack, email, and pagers
- Running root cause analysis templates with structured prompts
- Publishing incident summaries with redacted technical details
Module 14: Building a DevSecOps Culture and Change Management - Overcoming resistance to security in agile and DevOps teams
- Running effective security guilds and chapter meetings
- Creating security champions programs with mentorship paths
- Developing onboarding materials for new engineers
- Measuring team security maturity with self-assessment tools
- Integrating security into performance goals and 1:1 reviews
- Running red team/blue team simulations across departments
- Encouraging vulnerability disclosure and blameless retrospectives
- Communicating security wins and risk reductions to leadership
- Scaling cultural change across multiple business units
Module 15: Advanced Automation and AI-Powered Security - Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Securing Dockerfiles: minimising base image attack surface
- Enforcing non-root user execution and read-only filesystems
- Scanning container images with Trivy, Grype, and Clair
- Signing images with Notation and verifying in deployment pipelines
- Analysing Kubernetes manifests for privilege escalation risks
- Enforcing Pod Security Standards with policy controllers
- Implementing network policies to restrict microservice communication
- Using Falco and audit logs for runtime anomaly detection
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane configurations
- Automating CIS benchmark checks across clusters
Module 8: Secrets Management and Identity Security - Comparing secrets management tools: HashiCorp Vault vs AWS Secrets Manager
- Injecting secrets into containers at runtime using sidecar proxies
- Managing short-lived credentials with dynamic secrets engines
- Rotating secrets automatically with scheduled jobs and triggers
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, error messages, and CLI history
- Using identity-based access instead of static API keys
- Integrating workload identity with cloud IAM systems
- Implementing Just-In-Time (JIT) access for privileged operations
- Monitoring for anomalous access patterns using audit log analysis
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication at infrastructure control points
Module 9: Compliance Automation and Audit Readiness - Mapping CI/CD security controls to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001
- Automating evidence collection for required controls
- Generating time-stamped, tamper-evident logs for every pipeline run
- Creating compliance-as-code templates for repeatable audits
- Using InSpec and Chef Automate for infrastructure compliance testing
- Embedding regulatory checks into deployment gates
- Producing audit reports with automated narrative generation
- Managing access logs and role changes with immutable storage
- Configuring retention policies for compliance artifacts
- Preparing for third-party auditor reviews with standardised documentation
Module 10: Security Metrics, Monitoring, and Feedback Loops - Defining KPIs: mean time to detect, mean time to remediate, fix rate
- Building security dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus
- Creating developer feedback mechanisms for vulnerability ownership
- Integrating security findings into ticketing and sprint planning
- Measuring reduction in high-severity vulnerabilities over time
- Reporting security posture to leadership using risk heatmaps
- Setting up alerts for policy violations and unexpected deployments
- Using feedback loops to improve tooling accuracy and relevance
- Tracking adoption rates across teams and repos
- Establishing monthly security health reviews with engineering leads
Module 11: Threat Modelling and Risk Assessment - Conducting STRIDE-based threat modelling at design phase
- Using data flow diagrams to identify interception and tampering points
- Automating threat model outputs with custom scripts and templates
- Integrating threat model findings into user story acceptance criteria
- Prioritising risks using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Creating threat model repositories for system reusability
- Updating threat models with each architectural change
- Training developers to self-identify common attack vectors
- Generating traceability matrices from threats to controls
- Conducting lightweight threat reviews in sprint planning
Module 12: Secure Deployment and Production Hardening - Implementing blue/green and canary deployments with security validation
- Embedding automated security checks in production promotion gates
- Using feature flags with built-in access and usage logging
- Validating TLS configuration and certificate expiry in live environments
- Automating firewall rule reviews and port closure
- Ensuring all production services run with minimal required privileges
- Disabling debug endpoints and admin interfaces in production
- Removing default accounts and passwords from deployed systems
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption modules where required
- Conducting post-deployment security verification scans
Module 13: Incident Response and Post-Breach Automation - Creating automated incident playbooks for common DevSecOps scenarios
- Integrating SIEM systems with deployment pipelines for correlation
- Triggering rollback procedures based on security event detection
- Automating forensic data collection: logs, images, configurations
- Generating incident timelines with pipeline and system events
- Using immutable logs to preserve chain of custody
- Configuring auto-quarantine for compromised workloads
- Notifying response teams via Slack, email, and pagers
- Running root cause analysis templates with structured prompts
- Publishing incident summaries with redacted technical details
Module 14: Building a DevSecOps Culture and Change Management - Overcoming resistance to security in agile and DevOps teams
- Running effective security guilds and chapter meetings
- Creating security champions programs with mentorship paths
- Developing onboarding materials for new engineers
- Measuring team security maturity with self-assessment tools
- Integrating security into performance goals and 1:1 reviews
- Running red team/blue team simulations across departments
- Encouraging vulnerability disclosure and blameless retrospectives
- Communicating security wins and risk reductions to leadership
- Scaling cultural change across multiple business units
Module 15: Advanced Automation and AI-Powered Security - Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Mapping CI/CD security controls to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001
- Automating evidence collection for required controls
- Generating time-stamped, tamper-evident logs for every pipeline run
- Creating compliance-as-code templates for repeatable audits
- Using InSpec and Chef Automate for infrastructure compliance testing
- Embedding regulatory checks into deployment gates
- Producing audit reports with automated narrative generation
- Managing access logs and role changes with immutable storage
- Configuring retention policies for compliance artifacts
- Preparing for third-party auditor reviews with standardised documentation
Module 10: Security Metrics, Monitoring, and Feedback Loops - Defining KPIs: mean time to detect, mean time to remediate, fix rate
- Building security dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus
- Creating developer feedback mechanisms for vulnerability ownership
- Integrating security findings into ticketing and sprint planning
- Measuring reduction in high-severity vulnerabilities over time
- Reporting security posture to leadership using risk heatmaps
- Setting up alerts for policy violations and unexpected deployments
- Using feedback loops to improve tooling accuracy and relevance
- Tracking adoption rates across teams and repos
- Establishing monthly security health reviews with engineering leads
Module 11: Threat Modelling and Risk Assessment - Conducting STRIDE-based threat modelling at design phase
- Using data flow diagrams to identify interception and tampering points
- Automating threat model outputs with custom scripts and templates
- Integrating threat model findings into user story acceptance criteria
- Prioritising risks using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Creating threat model repositories for system reusability
- Updating threat models with each architectural change
- Training developers to self-identify common attack vectors
- Generating traceability matrices from threats to controls
- Conducting lightweight threat reviews in sprint planning
Module 12: Secure Deployment and Production Hardening - Implementing blue/green and canary deployments with security validation
- Embedding automated security checks in production promotion gates
- Using feature flags with built-in access and usage logging
- Validating TLS configuration and certificate expiry in live environments
- Automating firewall rule reviews and port closure
- Ensuring all production services run with minimal required privileges
- Disabling debug endpoints and admin interfaces in production
- Removing default accounts and passwords from deployed systems
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption modules where required
- Conducting post-deployment security verification scans
Module 13: Incident Response and Post-Breach Automation - Creating automated incident playbooks for common DevSecOps scenarios
- Integrating SIEM systems with deployment pipelines for correlation
- Triggering rollback procedures based on security event detection
- Automating forensic data collection: logs, images, configurations
- Generating incident timelines with pipeline and system events
- Using immutable logs to preserve chain of custody
- Configuring auto-quarantine for compromised workloads
- Notifying response teams via Slack, email, and pagers
- Running root cause analysis templates with structured prompts
- Publishing incident summaries with redacted technical details
Module 14: Building a DevSecOps Culture and Change Management - Overcoming resistance to security in agile and DevOps teams
- Running effective security guilds and chapter meetings
- Creating security champions programs with mentorship paths
- Developing onboarding materials for new engineers
- Measuring team security maturity with self-assessment tools
- Integrating security into performance goals and 1:1 reviews
- Running red team/blue team simulations across departments
- Encouraging vulnerability disclosure and blameless retrospectives
- Communicating security wins and risk reductions to leadership
- Scaling cultural change across multiple business units
Module 15: Advanced Automation and AI-Powered Security - Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Conducting STRIDE-based threat modelling at design phase
- Using data flow diagrams to identify interception and tampering points
- Automating threat model outputs with custom scripts and templates
- Integrating threat model findings into user story acceptance criteria
- Prioritising risks using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Creating threat model repositories for system reusability
- Updating threat models with each architectural change
- Training developers to self-identify common attack vectors
- Generating traceability matrices from threats to controls
- Conducting lightweight threat reviews in sprint planning
Module 12: Secure Deployment and Production Hardening - Implementing blue/green and canary deployments with security validation
- Embedding automated security checks in production promotion gates
- Using feature flags with built-in access and usage logging
- Validating TLS configuration and certificate expiry in live environments
- Automating firewall rule reviews and port closure
- Ensuring all production services run with minimal required privileges
- Disabling debug endpoints and admin interfaces in production
- Removing default accounts and passwords from deployed systems
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption modules where required
- Conducting post-deployment security verification scans
Module 13: Incident Response and Post-Breach Automation - Creating automated incident playbooks for common DevSecOps scenarios
- Integrating SIEM systems with deployment pipelines for correlation
- Triggering rollback procedures based on security event detection
- Automating forensic data collection: logs, images, configurations
- Generating incident timelines with pipeline and system events
- Using immutable logs to preserve chain of custody
- Configuring auto-quarantine for compromised workloads
- Notifying response teams via Slack, email, and pagers
- Running root cause analysis templates with structured prompts
- Publishing incident summaries with redacted technical details
Module 14: Building a DevSecOps Culture and Change Management - Overcoming resistance to security in agile and DevOps teams
- Running effective security guilds and chapter meetings
- Creating security champions programs with mentorship paths
- Developing onboarding materials for new engineers
- Measuring team security maturity with self-assessment tools
- Integrating security into performance goals and 1:1 reviews
- Running red team/blue team simulations across departments
- Encouraging vulnerability disclosure and blameless retrospectives
- Communicating security wins and risk reductions to leadership
- Scaling cultural change across multiple business units
Module 15: Advanced Automation and AI-Powered Security - Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Creating automated incident playbooks for common DevSecOps scenarios
- Integrating SIEM systems with deployment pipelines for correlation
- Triggering rollback procedures based on security event detection
- Automating forensic data collection: logs, images, configurations
- Generating incident timelines with pipeline and system events
- Using immutable logs to preserve chain of custody
- Configuring auto-quarantine for compromised workloads
- Notifying response teams via Slack, email, and pagers
- Running root cause analysis templates with structured prompts
- Publishing incident summaries with redacted technical details
Module 14: Building a DevSecOps Culture and Change Management - Overcoming resistance to security in agile and DevOps teams
- Running effective security guilds and chapter meetings
- Creating security champions programs with mentorship paths
- Developing onboarding materials for new engineers
- Measuring team security maturity with self-assessment tools
- Integrating security into performance goals and 1:1 reviews
- Running red team/blue team simulations across departments
- Encouraging vulnerability disclosure and blameless retrospectives
- Communicating security wins and risk reductions to leadership
- Scaling cultural change across multiple business units
Module 15: Advanced Automation and AI-Powered Security - Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Using AI to prioritise vulnerabilities based on context and exploit data
- Automating remediation suggestions with code patch generation
- Analysing historical incident data to predict failure patterns
- Integrating large language models for policy explanation and translation
- Using natural language processing to parse security advisories
- Creating smart alerting systems that reduce noise
- Training models on internal vulnerability datasets
- Implementing automated ticket creation with severity context
- Validating AI-generated fixes with regression test suites
- Setting governance boundaries for AI use in security decisions
Module 16: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Build a secure CI/CD pipeline from scratch for a sample app
- Configuring GitHub Actions or Jenkins with layered security checks
- Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and IaC validation
- Setting up approval gates with compliance policy enforcement
- Generating SBOM automatically on every build
- Securing container builds with Trivy and Notation signing
- Deploying to Kubernetes with network policies and runtime protection
- Creating dashboard for security posture tracking
- Documenting pipeline decisions for audit review
- Presenting final implementation as a certification portfolio artifact
- Project 2: Harden an existing legacy pipeline with security automation
- Conducting gap analysis and risk assessment
- Adding secrets detection and remediation workflows
- Re-architecting deployment model to include rollback triggers
- Enforcing IaC policy using OPA
- Integrating audit logging and immutable artifact storage
- Delivering before-and-after metrics for improvement
- Project 3: Develop a compliance automation package for SOC 2
- Mapping controls to CI/CD activities
- Automating evidence collection at scale
- Generating compliance dashboard and report templates
- Implementing access review automation
- Delivering auditor-ready documentation package
- Project 4: Lead organisational DevSecOps transformation roadmap
- Assessing current maturity using scoring model
- Setting 90-day implementation goals with measurable outcomes
- Designing change management and training plan
- Creating executive presentation with risk reduction forecast
- Delivering final capstone as leadership-ready proposal
Module 17: Certification, Portfolio, and Career Advancement - Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights
- Final assessment: Submit your implementation project for review
- Structure your project documentation using professional templates
- Include architecture diagrams, policy code, and validation results
- Write an executive summary highlighting risk reduction and ROI
- Receive detailed feedback from security and DevOps experts
- Pass criteria: completeness, accuracy, scalability, and clarity
- Earn your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Add your credential to LinkedIn, portfolio, and résumé
- Use your project as a reference in technical interviews
- Join the global alumni network for continued support
- Access exclusive templates for future implementations
- Track your progress with built-in milestone completion system
- Enable gamified achievements for each completed module
- Receive notifications for relevant updates and industry shifts
- Stay ahead with curated resources and community insights