Mastering DevSecOps: Secure Software Delivery at Scale
You're under pressure. Deadlines are tightening. Deployment pipelines are moving faster than ever. And yet, one security flaw, one overlooked vulnerability, could bring everything down. Manual checks don't scale. Legacy processes fail under velocity. And stakeholders demand speed without sacrificing compliance or resilience. You know that traditional DevOps can't protect what it doesn't see - and right now, security is reacting too late, costing time, budget, and credibility. But what if you could bake security into every phase - automatically, consistently, and without slowing delivery? What if your pipeline became self-defending, compliant by design, and resilient by default - turning risk into a competitive advantage? Mastering DevSecOps: Secure Software Delivery at Scale transforms the way you think about development, operations, and security. This is not theory. It’s a field-tested, implementation-ready methodology that equips you to deliver production-grade software with embedded assurance - at enterprise velocity. After completing this course, you will go from reactive patching to proactive protection, producing secure, compliant software at scale - with a documented, board-ready implementation plan that proves governance, traceability, and audit readiness in under 30 days. One recent participant, Diana M., Senior Release Manager at a Fortune 500 fintech, implemented the control framework within two weeks of finishing. Her team reduced critical vulnerabilities in CI/CD by 87% and passed a surprise SOC 2 audit with zero findings - the first time in company history. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery: Learn On Your Terms, With Zero Risk This program is designed for professionals who need results, not distractions. You gain immediate access to a fully self-paced, on-demand learning environment with no live sessions, time constraints, or scheduling conflicts. What You Get
- Self-paced, on-demand access - Start anytime, progress at your own speed, revisit any section as needed.
- Typical completion in 4 to 6 weeks with just 5–7 hours per week. Many learners implement core controls in under 14 days.
- Lifetime access - No expirations. All future content updates are included at no additional cost.
- Available 24/7 from any device - desktop, tablet, or mobile. Learn during commutes, between meetings, or from remote locations.
- Mobile-friendly interface optimized for readability, navigation, and progress tracking across all platforms.
Support & Certification
Progress with confidence. You are not alone. - Dedicated instructor support via structured guidance pathways for troubleshooting, implementation strategies, and architecture decisions.
- Context-aware prompts help you apply concepts directly to your organization’s stack, tooling, and compliance landscape.
- Upon completion, you receive a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a globally recognized credential trusted by enterprises, auditors, and hiring managers.
- This certificate is verifiable, professional, and strengthens your credibility in roles requiring governance, risk, and compliance leadership.
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We understand the stakes. That’s why your investment is protected. - Pricing is straightforward with no hidden fees, recurring charges, or upsells.
- We accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal - secured with industry-standard encryption.
- You are covered by our 30-day satisfied or refunded guarantee. If the course doesn’t meet your expectations, simply request a full refund - no questions asked.
- After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your access details will be sent separately once your course materials are prepared for optimal delivery.
This Works For You - Even If…
You’re skeptical. You've tried other programs. Some were too academic. Others assumed ideal environments. You work in a complex, hybrid stack, under tight audits, with legacy dependencies. This course was built for real-world conditions. Not theory. - Even if you’re in a regulated industry - finance, healthcare, government - the controls are mapped to NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS.
- Even if your team resists change - you’ll learn incremental rollout tactics that prove value fast and earn buy-in without disruption.
- Even if security feels like a bottleneck - you’ll redesign feedback loops to make security a contributor, not a gatekeeper.
- Even if you’re not a coder - roles in governance, compliance, release management, and operations will find precise, action-driven frameworks.
More than 9,300 engineers, architects, and compliance leads have used this methodology to align DevOps velocity with enterprise-grade security. Your access begins the moment you enroll - with a clear, low-risk path to transformation.
Module 1: Foundations of Secure Software Delivery - Understanding the DevSecOps evolution from siloed security to continuous protection
- Defining security as code: principles, scope, and organizational impact
- Mapping the modern software supply chain and identifying high-risk vectors
- The cost of delayed security integration in CI/CD pipelines
- Key differences between DevOps, SecOps, and true DevSecOps integration
- Establishing ownership models: who is responsible for security at each stage?
- Common failure patterns in scaling security automation
- Creating a security-first culture without slowing innovation
- Aligning DevSecOps with business objectives and risk tolerance
- Introducing the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle (SSDL)
Module 2: DevSecOps Principles & Enterprise Frameworks - The four pillars of scalable DevSecOps: shift-left, automation, telemetry, and feedback
- Shift-left security: integrating checks early in planning and design
- Shift-right security: runtime protection, observability, and response
- NIST SP 800-160 and its role in secure system design
- Applying the CSA CCM for cloud-native DevSecOps
- Mapping controls to ISO 27001 clauses for compliance readiness
- Leveraging MITRE ATT&CK for threat-informed pipeline design
- Designing defense-in-depth strategies for CI/CD environments
- Building a Zero Trust model into continuous delivery workflows
- The role of immutable infrastructure in reducing attack surface
- Standardizing secure configuration with CIS Benchmarks
- Adopting SLSA framework for supply chain integrity
- Implementing OpenSSF Best Practices for open-source governance
- Integrating DevSecOps into Agile, SAFe, and ITIL service management
- Creating cross-functional accountability through RACI matrices
Module 3: Secure Pipeline Architecture & Design - Blueprinting a secure CI/CD pipeline with embedded controls
- Designing pipeline stages with security gates and automated checks
- Selecting execution environments: ephemeral, isolated, and minimal
- Configuring role-based access control (RBAC) for pipeline actions
- Principle of least privilege in CI/CD tooling and agent permissions
- Auditing all pipeline activities: who did what, when, and why
- Securing secrets management with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Avoiding hardcoded credentials in build scripts and configurations
- Using signed commits and artifact provenance to prevent tampering
- Implementing key rotation, expiry, and revocation policies
- Isolating build environments with containerization and sandboxing
- Protecting against dependency confusion and DNS rebinding attacks
- Designing for reproducible builds and verifiable outputs
- Integrating pipeline health metrics into monitoring dashboards
- Defining acceptable risk thresholds for automated enforcement
Module 4: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Integration - Choosing the right SAST tools for different languages and frameworks
- Integrating SAST into pull request workflows with inline feedback
- Reducing false positives with context-aware rule tuning
- Scaling SAST across polyglot codebases with centralized policy
- Configuring severity thresholds for blocking vs. alerting
- Mapping findings to CWE and OWASP categories for prioritization
- Creating organizational rulesets based on risk profiles
- Enabling developer self-service triage and remediation guides
- Integrating linting rules with security standards
- Automating SAST scan triggers on commit, merge, and tag events
- Validating fix effectiveness through regression testing
- Leveraging SARIF format for standardized results ingestion
- Correlating SAST findings with issue tracking systems
- Maintaining consistency across distributed teams
- Documenting SAST coverage for audit and compliance reporting
Module 5: Dynamic & Interactive Application Security Testing (DAST/IAST) - Differentiating DAST, IAST, and penetration testing in DevSecOps
- Setting up automated DAST scans for staging and canary environments
- Configuring authenticated scanning sessions for protected endpoints
- Integrating DAST tools with CI/CD for regression validation
- Reducing scan time with smart crawling and API discovery
- Leveraging IAST agents for real-time vulnerability detection in test runs
- Correlating IAST data with execution paths and code coverage
- Handling API security through OpenAPI and GraphQL schema testing
- Validating OWASP Top 10 protections in running applications
- Enabling security champions to trigger on-demand scans
- Automating vulnerability verification to reduce noise
- Prioritizing findings based on exploitability and business impact
- Integrating DAST results into risk scoring models
- Monitoring historical trends in vulnerability exposure
- Documenting scan scope, methodology, and results for auditors
Module 6: Software Composition Analysis (SCA) & Open-Source Governance - Inventorying open-source components with Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
- Generating SBOMs in SPDX and CycloneDX formats automatically
- Scanning dependencies for known vulnerabilities using NVD and OSS Index
- Implementing license compliance checks to prevent legal risk
- Mitigating typosquatting and malicious package injection
- Establishing allowable license policies with automated approvals
- Automating vulnerability alerts with CVSS scoring thresholds
- Integrating fix recommendation engines for dependency upgrades
- Freezing vulnerable versions in package managers
- Enabling pull request blocking for critical CVEs
- Tracking patch availability and time-to-resolution metrics
- Setting up automated upgrades with Dependabot and Renovate
- Monitoring indirect (transitive) dependencies for risk exposure
- Validating SBOM integrity using cryptographic signing
- Using SCA data to support product security incident response
Module 7: Container & Kubernetes Security - Securing container images from base layer to application layer
- Scanning images for vulnerabilities during build and push
- Enforcing image provenance with Cosign and Sigstore
- Implementing image signing and verification in registries
- Minimizing attack surface with distroless and scratch images
- Running containers as non-root with user namespace remapping
- Applying seccomp, AppArmor, and SELinux profiles
- Setting resource limits and preventing DoS via container configs
- Securing Kubernetes pod specifications with securityContext
- Using Pod Security Standards (restricted, baseline, privileged)
- Deploying Network Policies to enforce micro-segmentation
- Protecting etcd with encryption and access controls
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane components
- Monitoring for suspicious API calls with audit logging
- Validating Helm charts with SAST and SCA techniques
- Implementing automated drift detection in production clusters
Module 8: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Scanning Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi code for misconfigurations
- Integrating IaC security tools into pre-commit and PR workflows
- Detecting hardcoded secrets in IaC templates
- Validating compliance with cloud security benchmarks
- Automating policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego
- Creating organization-wide IaC security baselines
- Preventing public S3 buckets, open security groups, and exposed databases
- Mapping IaC findings to cloud-native CIS controls
- Implementing drift remediation workflows
- Automating resource deprovisioning with tagging and lifecycle rules
- Securing state files with remote backends and encryption
- Managing module dependencies with version pinning
- Validating IaC against regulatory requirements
- Generating compliance reports from IaC scan results
- Scaling IaC security across multi-account, multi-region deployments
Module 9: Identity, Access & Secrets Management - Implementing short-lived, just-in-time credentials in CI/CD
- Integrating with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace
- Using workload identity federation for cloud access without static keys
- Enabling impersonation and delegation with fine-grained permissions
- Rotating API keys and service account credentials automatically
- Managing secrets with centralized vault solutions
- Injecting secrets at runtime with secure retrieval patterns
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, errors, and console output
- Detecting secrets in code with pattern matching and entropy analysis
- Configuring alerts and auto-remediation for leaked credentials
- Applying least privilege with granular IAM roles and policies
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication for administrative access
- Logging and monitoring privileged actions across environments
- Integrating identity telemetry into SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Documenting access controls for SOC 2, ISO, and PCI audits
Module 10: Threat Modeling & Risk Reduction at Scale - Applying STRIDE and DREAD methodologies to CI/CD components
- Identifying threats in build agents, registries, and orchestration tools
- Automating threat model updates based on pipeline changes
- Documenting data flows and trust boundaries in delivery workflows
- Generating risk heatmaps for CI/CD infrastructure and software assets
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Using threat libraries for consistent, repeatable assessments
- Quantifying risk exposure with likelihood and impact scoring
- Linking mitigation strategies to control implementation
- Validating controls through red team exercises and simulations
- Automating risk acceptance workflows with audit trails
- Tracking unresolved risks and exception lifecycles
- Communicating risk posture to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Updating threat models in response to new vulnerabilities
- Using threat modeling to inform insurance and cyber liability decisions
Module 11: Secure Release Management & Deployment Controls - Designing safe deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, feature flags
- Implementing gated promotions between environments
- Using approval workflows with audit trails for production releases
- Automating compliance checks before deployment
- Verifying artifact integrity with checksums and signatures
- Validating environment parity to reduce configuration drift
- Enabling rollback mechanisms with automated recovery triggers
- Monitoring deployment success with health probes and metrics
- Linking deployment events to security incidents and audit logs
- Integrating change advisory board (CAB) processes with automation
- Managing emergency bypasses with time-bound overrides and reviews
- Enforcing mandatory security checklists for high-risk changes
- Using deployment freeze windows during audits and fiscal closures
- Generating release compliance reports for governance teams
- Automating post-deployment security validation scans
Module 12: Continuous Monitoring, Detection & Response - Instrumenting CI/CD pipelines with actionable telemetry
- Collecting logs from build agents, containers, and orchestration layers
- Setting up alerts for suspicious activities and failed security checks
- Correlating events across SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC tools
- Using SIEM platforms to detect anomalous pipeline behavior
- Employing SOAR playbooks for automated response to security events
- Detecting compromised build agents and unauthorized access
- Monitoring for credential misuse and privilege escalation
- Tracking pipeline performance alongside security metrics
- Creating executive dashboards for DevSecOps KPIs
- Integrating with incident management tools like Jira and ServiceNow
- Conducting root cause analysis for recurring weaknesses
- Automating containment actions for high-severity findings
- Logging all remediation activities for audit completeness
- Using monitoring data to refine security policies over time
Module 13: Governance, Compliance & Audit Readiness - Mapping DevSecOps controls to regulatory frameworks
- Automating evidence collection for compliance reporting
- Generating real-time compliance dashboards for auditors
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits
- Documenting control ownership and implementation status
- Using compliance as code to enforce standards across pipelines
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralized oversight
- Creating audit trails for all security decisions and exceptions
- Establishing version-controlled policy repositories
- Automating policy distribution and enforcement consistency
- Conducting internal compliance reviews and gap assessments
- Responding to auditor inquiries with verifiable data
- Reducing audit preparation time from weeks to hours
- Producing executive summaries of security posture
- Aligning compliance efforts with business risk strategy
Module 14: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise Adoption - Creating standardized DevSecOps playbooks for consistent rollout
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for security enablement
- Training security champions across development teams
- Designing onboarding programs for new hires and contractors
- Measuring adoption through tooling usage and compliance rates
- Integrating feedback loops to improve developer experience
- Reducing friction through self-service security tooling
- Running tabletop exercises for pipeline breach scenarios
- Managing technical debt in security automation
- Coordinating DevSecOps initiatives across geographies
- Aligning incentives between development, security, and operations
- Leveraging gamification to boost participation and awareness
- Tracking progress with DevSecOps maturity models
- Reporting ROI to executives using risk reduction and time-to-market
- Scaling securely from monorepos to microservices with governance
Module 15: Certification, Final Assessment & Next Steps - Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools
- Understanding the DevSecOps evolution from siloed security to continuous protection
- Defining security as code: principles, scope, and organizational impact
- Mapping the modern software supply chain and identifying high-risk vectors
- The cost of delayed security integration in CI/CD pipelines
- Key differences between DevOps, SecOps, and true DevSecOps integration
- Establishing ownership models: who is responsible for security at each stage?
- Common failure patterns in scaling security automation
- Creating a security-first culture without slowing innovation
- Aligning DevSecOps with business objectives and risk tolerance
- Introducing the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle (SSDL)
Module 2: DevSecOps Principles & Enterprise Frameworks - The four pillars of scalable DevSecOps: shift-left, automation, telemetry, and feedback
- Shift-left security: integrating checks early in planning and design
- Shift-right security: runtime protection, observability, and response
- NIST SP 800-160 and its role in secure system design
- Applying the CSA CCM for cloud-native DevSecOps
- Mapping controls to ISO 27001 clauses for compliance readiness
- Leveraging MITRE ATT&CK for threat-informed pipeline design
- Designing defense-in-depth strategies for CI/CD environments
- Building a Zero Trust model into continuous delivery workflows
- The role of immutable infrastructure in reducing attack surface
- Standardizing secure configuration with CIS Benchmarks
- Adopting SLSA framework for supply chain integrity
- Implementing OpenSSF Best Practices for open-source governance
- Integrating DevSecOps into Agile, SAFe, and ITIL service management
- Creating cross-functional accountability through RACI matrices
Module 3: Secure Pipeline Architecture & Design - Blueprinting a secure CI/CD pipeline with embedded controls
- Designing pipeline stages with security gates and automated checks
- Selecting execution environments: ephemeral, isolated, and minimal
- Configuring role-based access control (RBAC) for pipeline actions
- Principle of least privilege in CI/CD tooling and agent permissions
- Auditing all pipeline activities: who did what, when, and why
- Securing secrets management with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Avoiding hardcoded credentials in build scripts and configurations
- Using signed commits and artifact provenance to prevent tampering
- Implementing key rotation, expiry, and revocation policies
- Isolating build environments with containerization and sandboxing
- Protecting against dependency confusion and DNS rebinding attacks
- Designing for reproducible builds and verifiable outputs
- Integrating pipeline health metrics into monitoring dashboards
- Defining acceptable risk thresholds for automated enforcement
Module 4: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Integration - Choosing the right SAST tools for different languages and frameworks
- Integrating SAST into pull request workflows with inline feedback
- Reducing false positives with context-aware rule tuning
- Scaling SAST across polyglot codebases with centralized policy
- Configuring severity thresholds for blocking vs. alerting
- Mapping findings to CWE and OWASP categories for prioritization
- Creating organizational rulesets based on risk profiles
- Enabling developer self-service triage and remediation guides
- Integrating linting rules with security standards
- Automating SAST scan triggers on commit, merge, and tag events
- Validating fix effectiveness through regression testing
- Leveraging SARIF format for standardized results ingestion
- Correlating SAST findings with issue tracking systems
- Maintaining consistency across distributed teams
- Documenting SAST coverage for audit and compliance reporting
Module 5: Dynamic & Interactive Application Security Testing (DAST/IAST) - Differentiating DAST, IAST, and penetration testing in DevSecOps
- Setting up automated DAST scans for staging and canary environments
- Configuring authenticated scanning sessions for protected endpoints
- Integrating DAST tools with CI/CD for regression validation
- Reducing scan time with smart crawling and API discovery
- Leveraging IAST agents for real-time vulnerability detection in test runs
- Correlating IAST data with execution paths and code coverage
- Handling API security through OpenAPI and GraphQL schema testing
- Validating OWASP Top 10 protections in running applications
- Enabling security champions to trigger on-demand scans
- Automating vulnerability verification to reduce noise
- Prioritizing findings based on exploitability and business impact
- Integrating DAST results into risk scoring models
- Monitoring historical trends in vulnerability exposure
- Documenting scan scope, methodology, and results for auditors
Module 6: Software Composition Analysis (SCA) & Open-Source Governance - Inventorying open-source components with Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
- Generating SBOMs in SPDX and CycloneDX formats automatically
- Scanning dependencies for known vulnerabilities using NVD and OSS Index
- Implementing license compliance checks to prevent legal risk
- Mitigating typosquatting and malicious package injection
- Establishing allowable license policies with automated approvals
- Automating vulnerability alerts with CVSS scoring thresholds
- Integrating fix recommendation engines for dependency upgrades
- Freezing vulnerable versions in package managers
- Enabling pull request blocking for critical CVEs
- Tracking patch availability and time-to-resolution metrics
- Setting up automated upgrades with Dependabot and Renovate
- Monitoring indirect (transitive) dependencies for risk exposure
- Validating SBOM integrity using cryptographic signing
- Using SCA data to support product security incident response
Module 7: Container & Kubernetes Security - Securing container images from base layer to application layer
- Scanning images for vulnerabilities during build and push
- Enforcing image provenance with Cosign and Sigstore
- Implementing image signing and verification in registries
- Minimizing attack surface with distroless and scratch images
- Running containers as non-root with user namespace remapping
- Applying seccomp, AppArmor, and SELinux profiles
- Setting resource limits and preventing DoS via container configs
- Securing Kubernetes pod specifications with securityContext
- Using Pod Security Standards (restricted, baseline, privileged)
- Deploying Network Policies to enforce micro-segmentation
- Protecting etcd with encryption and access controls
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane components
- Monitoring for suspicious API calls with audit logging
- Validating Helm charts with SAST and SCA techniques
- Implementing automated drift detection in production clusters
Module 8: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Scanning Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi code for misconfigurations
- Integrating IaC security tools into pre-commit and PR workflows
- Detecting hardcoded secrets in IaC templates
- Validating compliance with cloud security benchmarks
- Automating policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego
- Creating organization-wide IaC security baselines
- Preventing public S3 buckets, open security groups, and exposed databases
- Mapping IaC findings to cloud-native CIS controls
- Implementing drift remediation workflows
- Automating resource deprovisioning with tagging and lifecycle rules
- Securing state files with remote backends and encryption
- Managing module dependencies with version pinning
- Validating IaC against regulatory requirements
- Generating compliance reports from IaC scan results
- Scaling IaC security across multi-account, multi-region deployments
Module 9: Identity, Access & Secrets Management - Implementing short-lived, just-in-time credentials in CI/CD
- Integrating with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace
- Using workload identity federation for cloud access without static keys
- Enabling impersonation and delegation with fine-grained permissions
- Rotating API keys and service account credentials automatically
- Managing secrets with centralized vault solutions
- Injecting secrets at runtime with secure retrieval patterns
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, errors, and console output
- Detecting secrets in code with pattern matching and entropy analysis
- Configuring alerts and auto-remediation for leaked credentials
- Applying least privilege with granular IAM roles and policies
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication for administrative access
- Logging and monitoring privileged actions across environments
- Integrating identity telemetry into SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Documenting access controls for SOC 2, ISO, and PCI audits
Module 10: Threat Modeling & Risk Reduction at Scale - Applying STRIDE and DREAD methodologies to CI/CD components
- Identifying threats in build agents, registries, and orchestration tools
- Automating threat model updates based on pipeline changes
- Documenting data flows and trust boundaries in delivery workflows
- Generating risk heatmaps for CI/CD infrastructure and software assets
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Using threat libraries for consistent, repeatable assessments
- Quantifying risk exposure with likelihood and impact scoring
- Linking mitigation strategies to control implementation
- Validating controls through red team exercises and simulations
- Automating risk acceptance workflows with audit trails
- Tracking unresolved risks and exception lifecycles
- Communicating risk posture to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Updating threat models in response to new vulnerabilities
- Using threat modeling to inform insurance and cyber liability decisions
Module 11: Secure Release Management & Deployment Controls - Designing safe deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, feature flags
- Implementing gated promotions between environments
- Using approval workflows with audit trails for production releases
- Automating compliance checks before deployment
- Verifying artifact integrity with checksums and signatures
- Validating environment parity to reduce configuration drift
- Enabling rollback mechanisms with automated recovery triggers
- Monitoring deployment success with health probes and metrics
- Linking deployment events to security incidents and audit logs
- Integrating change advisory board (CAB) processes with automation
- Managing emergency bypasses with time-bound overrides and reviews
- Enforcing mandatory security checklists for high-risk changes
- Using deployment freeze windows during audits and fiscal closures
- Generating release compliance reports for governance teams
- Automating post-deployment security validation scans
Module 12: Continuous Monitoring, Detection & Response - Instrumenting CI/CD pipelines with actionable telemetry
- Collecting logs from build agents, containers, and orchestration layers
- Setting up alerts for suspicious activities and failed security checks
- Correlating events across SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC tools
- Using SIEM platforms to detect anomalous pipeline behavior
- Employing SOAR playbooks for automated response to security events
- Detecting compromised build agents and unauthorized access
- Monitoring for credential misuse and privilege escalation
- Tracking pipeline performance alongside security metrics
- Creating executive dashboards for DevSecOps KPIs
- Integrating with incident management tools like Jira and ServiceNow
- Conducting root cause analysis for recurring weaknesses
- Automating containment actions for high-severity findings
- Logging all remediation activities for audit completeness
- Using monitoring data to refine security policies over time
Module 13: Governance, Compliance & Audit Readiness - Mapping DevSecOps controls to regulatory frameworks
- Automating evidence collection for compliance reporting
- Generating real-time compliance dashboards for auditors
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits
- Documenting control ownership and implementation status
- Using compliance as code to enforce standards across pipelines
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralized oversight
- Creating audit trails for all security decisions and exceptions
- Establishing version-controlled policy repositories
- Automating policy distribution and enforcement consistency
- Conducting internal compliance reviews and gap assessments
- Responding to auditor inquiries with verifiable data
- Reducing audit preparation time from weeks to hours
- Producing executive summaries of security posture
- Aligning compliance efforts with business risk strategy
Module 14: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise Adoption - Creating standardized DevSecOps playbooks for consistent rollout
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for security enablement
- Training security champions across development teams
- Designing onboarding programs for new hires and contractors
- Measuring adoption through tooling usage and compliance rates
- Integrating feedback loops to improve developer experience
- Reducing friction through self-service security tooling
- Running tabletop exercises for pipeline breach scenarios
- Managing technical debt in security automation
- Coordinating DevSecOps initiatives across geographies
- Aligning incentives between development, security, and operations
- Leveraging gamification to boost participation and awareness
- Tracking progress with DevSecOps maturity models
- Reporting ROI to executives using risk reduction and time-to-market
- Scaling securely from monorepos to microservices with governance
Module 15: Certification, Final Assessment & Next Steps - Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools
- Blueprinting a secure CI/CD pipeline with embedded controls
- Designing pipeline stages with security gates and automated checks
- Selecting execution environments: ephemeral, isolated, and minimal
- Configuring role-based access control (RBAC) for pipeline actions
- Principle of least privilege in CI/CD tooling and agent permissions
- Auditing all pipeline activities: who did what, when, and why
- Securing secrets management with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Avoiding hardcoded credentials in build scripts and configurations
- Using signed commits and artifact provenance to prevent tampering
- Implementing key rotation, expiry, and revocation policies
- Isolating build environments with containerization and sandboxing
- Protecting against dependency confusion and DNS rebinding attacks
- Designing for reproducible builds and verifiable outputs
- Integrating pipeline health metrics into monitoring dashboards
- Defining acceptable risk thresholds for automated enforcement
Module 4: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Integration - Choosing the right SAST tools for different languages and frameworks
- Integrating SAST into pull request workflows with inline feedback
- Reducing false positives with context-aware rule tuning
- Scaling SAST across polyglot codebases with centralized policy
- Configuring severity thresholds for blocking vs. alerting
- Mapping findings to CWE and OWASP categories for prioritization
- Creating organizational rulesets based on risk profiles
- Enabling developer self-service triage and remediation guides
- Integrating linting rules with security standards
- Automating SAST scan triggers on commit, merge, and tag events
- Validating fix effectiveness through regression testing
- Leveraging SARIF format for standardized results ingestion
- Correlating SAST findings with issue tracking systems
- Maintaining consistency across distributed teams
- Documenting SAST coverage for audit and compliance reporting
Module 5: Dynamic & Interactive Application Security Testing (DAST/IAST) - Differentiating DAST, IAST, and penetration testing in DevSecOps
- Setting up automated DAST scans for staging and canary environments
- Configuring authenticated scanning sessions for protected endpoints
- Integrating DAST tools with CI/CD for regression validation
- Reducing scan time with smart crawling and API discovery
- Leveraging IAST agents for real-time vulnerability detection in test runs
- Correlating IAST data with execution paths and code coverage
- Handling API security through OpenAPI and GraphQL schema testing
- Validating OWASP Top 10 protections in running applications
- Enabling security champions to trigger on-demand scans
- Automating vulnerability verification to reduce noise
- Prioritizing findings based on exploitability and business impact
- Integrating DAST results into risk scoring models
- Monitoring historical trends in vulnerability exposure
- Documenting scan scope, methodology, and results for auditors
Module 6: Software Composition Analysis (SCA) & Open-Source Governance - Inventorying open-source components with Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
- Generating SBOMs in SPDX and CycloneDX formats automatically
- Scanning dependencies for known vulnerabilities using NVD and OSS Index
- Implementing license compliance checks to prevent legal risk
- Mitigating typosquatting and malicious package injection
- Establishing allowable license policies with automated approvals
- Automating vulnerability alerts with CVSS scoring thresholds
- Integrating fix recommendation engines for dependency upgrades
- Freezing vulnerable versions in package managers
- Enabling pull request blocking for critical CVEs
- Tracking patch availability and time-to-resolution metrics
- Setting up automated upgrades with Dependabot and Renovate
- Monitoring indirect (transitive) dependencies for risk exposure
- Validating SBOM integrity using cryptographic signing
- Using SCA data to support product security incident response
Module 7: Container & Kubernetes Security - Securing container images from base layer to application layer
- Scanning images for vulnerabilities during build and push
- Enforcing image provenance with Cosign and Sigstore
- Implementing image signing and verification in registries
- Minimizing attack surface with distroless and scratch images
- Running containers as non-root with user namespace remapping
- Applying seccomp, AppArmor, and SELinux profiles
- Setting resource limits and preventing DoS via container configs
- Securing Kubernetes pod specifications with securityContext
- Using Pod Security Standards (restricted, baseline, privileged)
- Deploying Network Policies to enforce micro-segmentation
- Protecting etcd with encryption and access controls
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane components
- Monitoring for suspicious API calls with audit logging
- Validating Helm charts with SAST and SCA techniques
- Implementing automated drift detection in production clusters
Module 8: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Scanning Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi code for misconfigurations
- Integrating IaC security tools into pre-commit and PR workflows
- Detecting hardcoded secrets in IaC templates
- Validating compliance with cloud security benchmarks
- Automating policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego
- Creating organization-wide IaC security baselines
- Preventing public S3 buckets, open security groups, and exposed databases
- Mapping IaC findings to cloud-native CIS controls
- Implementing drift remediation workflows
- Automating resource deprovisioning with tagging and lifecycle rules
- Securing state files with remote backends and encryption
- Managing module dependencies with version pinning
- Validating IaC against regulatory requirements
- Generating compliance reports from IaC scan results
- Scaling IaC security across multi-account, multi-region deployments
Module 9: Identity, Access & Secrets Management - Implementing short-lived, just-in-time credentials in CI/CD
- Integrating with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace
- Using workload identity federation for cloud access without static keys
- Enabling impersonation and delegation with fine-grained permissions
- Rotating API keys and service account credentials automatically
- Managing secrets with centralized vault solutions
- Injecting secrets at runtime with secure retrieval patterns
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, errors, and console output
- Detecting secrets in code with pattern matching and entropy analysis
- Configuring alerts and auto-remediation for leaked credentials
- Applying least privilege with granular IAM roles and policies
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication for administrative access
- Logging and monitoring privileged actions across environments
- Integrating identity telemetry into SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Documenting access controls for SOC 2, ISO, and PCI audits
Module 10: Threat Modeling & Risk Reduction at Scale - Applying STRIDE and DREAD methodologies to CI/CD components
- Identifying threats in build agents, registries, and orchestration tools
- Automating threat model updates based on pipeline changes
- Documenting data flows and trust boundaries in delivery workflows
- Generating risk heatmaps for CI/CD infrastructure and software assets
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Using threat libraries for consistent, repeatable assessments
- Quantifying risk exposure with likelihood and impact scoring
- Linking mitigation strategies to control implementation
- Validating controls through red team exercises and simulations
- Automating risk acceptance workflows with audit trails
- Tracking unresolved risks and exception lifecycles
- Communicating risk posture to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Updating threat models in response to new vulnerabilities
- Using threat modeling to inform insurance and cyber liability decisions
Module 11: Secure Release Management & Deployment Controls - Designing safe deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, feature flags
- Implementing gated promotions between environments
- Using approval workflows with audit trails for production releases
- Automating compliance checks before deployment
- Verifying artifact integrity with checksums and signatures
- Validating environment parity to reduce configuration drift
- Enabling rollback mechanisms with automated recovery triggers
- Monitoring deployment success with health probes and metrics
- Linking deployment events to security incidents and audit logs
- Integrating change advisory board (CAB) processes with automation
- Managing emergency bypasses with time-bound overrides and reviews
- Enforcing mandatory security checklists for high-risk changes
- Using deployment freeze windows during audits and fiscal closures
- Generating release compliance reports for governance teams
- Automating post-deployment security validation scans
Module 12: Continuous Monitoring, Detection & Response - Instrumenting CI/CD pipelines with actionable telemetry
- Collecting logs from build agents, containers, and orchestration layers
- Setting up alerts for suspicious activities and failed security checks
- Correlating events across SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC tools
- Using SIEM platforms to detect anomalous pipeline behavior
- Employing SOAR playbooks for automated response to security events
- Detecting compromised build agents and unauthorized access
- Monitoring for credential misuse and privilege escalation
- Tracking pipeline performance alongside security metrics
- Creating executive dashboards for DevSecOps KPIs
- Integrating with incident management tools like Jira and ServiceNow
- Conducting root cause analysis for recurring weaknesses
- Automating containment actions for high-severity findings
- Logging all remediation activities for audit completeness
- Using monitoring data to refine security policies over time
Module 13: Governance, Compliance & Audit Readiness - Mapping DevSecOps controls to regulatory frameworks
- Automating evidence collection for compliance reporting
- Generating real-time compliance dashboards for auditors
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits
- Documenting control ownership and implementation status
- Using compliance as code to enforce standards across pipelines
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralized oversight
- Creating audit trails for all security decisions and exceptions
- Establishing version-controlled policy repositories
- Automating policy distribution and enforcement consistency
- Conducting internal compliance reviews and gap assessments
- Responding to auditor inquiries with verifiable data
- Reducing audit preparation time from weeks to hours
- Producing executive summaries of security posture
- Aligning compliance efforts with business risk strategy
Module 14: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise Adoption - Creating standardized DevSecOps playbooks for consistent rollout
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for security enablement
- Training security champions across development teams
- Designing onboarding programs for new hires and contractors
- Measuring adoption through tooling usage and compliance rates
- Integrating feedback loops to improve developer experience
- Reducing friction through self-service security tooling
- Running tabletop exercises for pipeline breach scenarios
- Managing technical debt in security automation
- Coordinating DevSecOps initiatives across geographies
- Aligning incentives between development, security, and operations
- Leveraging gamification to boost participation and awareness
- Tracking progress with DevSecOps maturity models
- Reporting ROI to executives using risk reduction and time-to-market
- Scaling securely from monorepos to microservices with governance
Module 15: Certification, Final Assessment & Next Steps - Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools
- Differentiating DAST, IAST, and penetration testing in DevSecOps
- Setting up automated DAST scans for staging and canary environments
- Configuring authenticated scanning sessions for protected endpoints
- Integrating DAST tools with CI/CD for regression validation
- Reducing scan time with smart crawling and API discovery
- Leveraging IAST agents for real-time vulnerability detection in test runs
- Correlating IAST data with execution paths and code coverage
- Handling API security through OpenAPI and GraphQL schema testing
- Validating OWASP Top 10 protections in running applications
- Enabling security champions to trigger on-demand scans
- Automating vulnerability verification to reduce noise
- Prioritizing findings based on exploitability and business impact
- Integrating DAST results into risk scoring models
- Monitoring historical trends in vulnerability exposure
- Documenting scan scope, methodology, and results for auditors
Module 6: Software Composition Analysis (SCA) & Open-Source Governance - Inventorying open-source components with Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
- Generating SBOMs in SPDX and CycloneDX formats automatically
- Scanning dependencies for known vulnerabilities using NVD and OSS Index
- Implementing license compliance checks to prevent legal risk
- Mitigating typosquatting and malicious package injection
- Establishing allowable license policies with automated approvals
- Automating vulnerability alerts with CVSS scoring thresholds
- Integrating fix recommendation engines for dependency upgrades
- Freezing vulnerable versions in package managers
- Enabling pull request blocking for critical CVEs
- Tracking patch availability and time-to-resolution metrics
- Setting up automated upgrades with Dependabot and Renovate
- Monitoring indirect (transitive) dependencies for risk exposure
- Validating SBOM integrity using cryptographic signing
- Using SCA data to support product security incident response
Module 7: Container & Kubernetes Security - Securing container images from base layer to application layer
- Scanning images for vulnerabilities during build and push
- Enforcing image provenance with Cosign and Sigstore
- Implementing image signing and verification in registries
- Minimizing attack surface with distroless and scratch images
- Running containers as non-root with user namespace remapping
- Applying seccomp, AppArmor, and SELinux profiles
- Setting resource limits and preventing DoS via container configs
- Securing Kubernetes pod specifications with securityContext
- Using Pod Security Standards (restricted, baseline, privileged)
- Deploying Network Policies to enforce micro-segmentation
- Protecting etcd with encryption and access controls
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane components
- Monitoring for suspicious API calls with audit logging
- Validating Helm charts with SAST and SCA techniques
- Implementing automated drift detection in production clusters
Module 8: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Scanning Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi code for misconfigurations
- Integrating IaC security tools into pre-commit and PR workflows
- Detecting hardcoded secrets in IaC templates
- Validating compliance with cloud security benchmarks
- Automating policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego
- Creating organization-wide IaC security baselines
- Preventing public S3 buckets, open security groups, and exposed databases
- Mapping IaC findings to cloud-native CIS controls
- Implementing drift remediation workflows
- Automating resource deprovisioning with tagging and lifecycle rules
- Securing state files with remote backends and encryption
- Managing module dependencies with version pinning
- Validating IaC against regulatory requirements
- Generating compliance reports from IaC scan results
- Scaling IaC security across multi-account, multi-region deployments
Module 9: Identity, Access & Secrets Management - Implementing short-lived, just-in-time credentials in CI/CD
- Integrating with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace
- Using workload identity federation for cloud access without static keys
- Enabling impersonation and delegation with fine-grained permissions
- Rotating API keys and service account credentials automatically
- Managing secrets with centralized vault solutions
- Injecting secrets at runtime with secure retrieval patterns
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, errors, and console output
- Detecting secrets in code with pattern matching and entropy analysis
- Configuring alerts and auto-remediation for leaked credentials
- Applying least privilege with granular IAM roles and policies
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication for administrative access
- Logging and monitoring privileged actions across environments
- Integrating identity telemetry into SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Documenting access controls for SOC 2, ISO, and PCI audits
Module 10: Threat Modeling & Risk Reduction at Scale - Applying STRIDE and DREAD methodologies to CI/CD components
- Identifying threats in build agents, registries, and orchestration tools
- Automating threat model updates based on pipeline changes
- Documenting data flows and trust boundaries in delivery workflows
- Generating risk heatmaps for CI/CD infrastructure and software assets
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Using threat libraries for consistent, repeatable assessments
- Quantifying risk exposure with likelihood and impact scoring
- Linking mitigation strategies to control implementation
- Validating controls through red team exercises and simulations
- Automating risk acceptance workflows with audit trails
- Tracking unresolved risks and exception lifecycles
- Communicating risk posture to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Updating threat models in response to new vulnerabilities
- Using threat modeling to inform insurance and cyber liability decisions
Module 11: Secure Release Management & Deployment Controls - Designing safe deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, feature flags
- Implementing gated promotions between environments
- Using approval workflows with audit trails for production releases
- Automating compliance checks before deployment
- Verifying artifact integrity with checksums and signatures
- Validating environment parity to reduce configuration drift
- Enabling rollback mechanisms with automated recovery triggers
- Monitoring deployment success with health probes and metrics
- Linking deployment events to security incidents and audit logs
- Integrating change advisory board (CAB) processes with automation
- Managing emergency bypasses with time-bound overrides and reviews
- Enforcing mandatory security checklists for high-risk changes
- Using deployment freeze windows during audits and fiscal closures
- Generating release compliance reports for governance teams
- Automating post-deployment security validation scans
Module 12: Continuous Monitoring, Detection & Response - Instrumenting CI/CD pipelines with actionable telemetry
- Collecting logs from build agents, containers, and orchestration layers
- Setting up alerts for suspicious activities and failed security checks
- Correlating events across SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC tools
- Using SIEM platforms to detect anomalous pipeline behavior
- Employing SOAR playbooks for automated response to security events
- Detecting compromised build agents and unauthorized access
- Monitoring for credential misuse and privilege escalation
- Tracking pipeline performance alongside security metrics
- Creating executive dashboards for DevSecOps KPIs
- Integrating with incident management tools like Jira and ServiceNow
- Conducting root cause analysis for recurring weaknesses
- Automating containment actions for high-severity findings
- Logging all remediation activities for audit completeness
- Using monitoring data to refine security policies over time
Module 13: Governance, Compliance & Audit Readiness - Mapping DevSecOps controls to regulatory frameworks
- Automating evidence collection for compliance reporting
- Generating real-time compliance dashboards for auditors
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits
- Documenting control ownership and implementation status
- Using compliance as code to enforce standards across pipelines
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralized oversight
- Creating audit trails for all security decisions and exceptions
- Establishing version-controlled policy repositories
- Automating policy distribution and enforcement consistency
- Conducting internal compliance reviews and gap assessments
- Responding to auditor inquiries with verifiable data
- Reducing audit preparation time from weeks to hours
- Producing executive summaries of security posture
- Aligning compliance efforts with business risk strategy
Module 14: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise Adoption - Creating standardized DevSecOps playbooks for consistent rollout
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for security enablement
- Training security champions across development teams
- Designing onboarding programs for new hires and contractors
- Measuring adoption through tooling usage and compliance rates
- Integrating feedback loops to improve developer experience
- Reducing friction through self-service security tooling
- Running tabletop exercises for pipeline breach scenarios
- Managing technical debt in security automation
- Coordinating DevSecOps initiatives across geographies
- Aligning incentives between development, security, and operations
- Leveraging gamification to boost participation and awareness
- Tracking progress with DevSecOps maturity models
- Reporting ROI to executives using risk reduction and time-to-market
- Scaling securely from monorepos to microservices with governance
Module 15: Certification, Final Assessment & Next Steps - Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools
- Securing container images from base layer to application layer
- Scanning images for vulnerabilities during build and push
- Enforcing image provenance with Cosign and Sigstore
- Implementing image signing and verification in registries
- Minimizing attack surface with distroless and scratch images
- Running containers as non-root with user namespace remapping
- Applying seccomp, AppArmor, and SELinux profiles
- Setting resource limits and preventing DoS via container configs
- Securing Kubernetes pod specifications with securityContext
- Using Pod Security Standards (restricted, baseline, privileged)
- Deploying Network Policies to enforce micro-segmentation
- Protecting etcd with encryption and access controls
- Hardening kubelet, API server, and control plane components
- Monitoring for suspicious API calls with audit logging
- Validating Helm charts with SAST and SCA techniques
- Implementing automated drift detection in production clusters
Module 8: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Scanning Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi code for misconfigurations
- Integrating IaC security tools into pre-commit and PR workflows
- Detecting hardcoded secrets in IaC templates
- Validating compliance with cloud security benchmarks
- Automating policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego
- Creating organization-wide IaC security baselines
- Preventing public S3 buckets, open security groups, and exposed databases
- Mapping IaC findings to cloud-native CIS controls
- Implementing drift remediation workflows
- Automating resource deprovisioning with tagging and lifecycle rules
- Securing state files with remote backends and encryption
- Managing module dependencies with version pinning
- Validating IaC against regulatory requirements
- Generating compliance reports from IaC scan results
- Scaling IaC security across multi-account, multi-region deployments
Module 9: Identity, Access & Secrets Management - Implementing short-lived, just-in-time credentials in CI/CD
- Integrating with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace
- Using workload identity federation for cloud access without static keys
- Enabling impersonation and delegation with fine-grained permissions
- Rotating API keys and service account credentials automatically
- Managing secrets with centralized vault solutions
- Injecting secrets at runtime with secure retrieval patterns
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, errors, and console output
- Detecting secrets in code with pattern matching and entropy analysis
- Configuring alerts and auto-remediation for leaked credentials
- Applying least privilege with granular IAM roles and policies
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication for administrative access
- Logging and monitoring privileged actions across environments
- Integrating identity telemetry into SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Documenting access controls for SOC 2, ISO, and PCI audits
Module 10: Threat Modeling & Risk Reduction at Scale - Applying STRIDE and DREAD methodologies to CI/CD components
- Identifying threats in build agents, registries, and orchestration tools
- Automating threat model updates based on pipeline changes
- Documenting data flows and trust boundaries in delivery workflows
- Generating risk heatmaps for CI/CD infrastructure and software assets
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Using threat libraries for consistent, repeatable assessments
- Quantifying risk exposure with likelihood and impact scoring
- Linking mitigation strategies to control implementation
- Validating controls through red team exercises and simulations
- Automating risk acceptance workflows with audit trails
- Tracking unresolved risks and exception lifecycles
- Communicating risk posture to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Updating threat models in response to new vulnerabilities
- Using threat modeling to inform insurance and cyber liability decisions
Module 11: Secure Release Management & Deployment Controls - Designing safe deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, feature flags
- Implementing gated promotions between environments
- Using approval workflows with audit trails for production releases
- Automating compliance checks before deployment
- Verifying artifact integrity with checksums and signatures
- Validating environment parity to reduce configuration drift
- Enabling rollback mechanisms with automated recovery triggers
- Monitoring deployment success with health probes and metrics
- Linking deployment events to security incidents and audit logs
- Integrating change advisory board (CAB) processes with automation
- Managing emergency bypasses with time-bound overrides and reviews
- Enforcing mandatory security checklists for high-risk changes
- Using deployment freeze windows during audits and fiscal closures
- Generating release compliance reports for governance teams
- Automating post-deployment security validation scans
Module 12: Continuous Monitoring, Detection & Response - Instrumenting CI/CD pipelines with actionable telemetry
- Collecting logs from build agents, containers, and orchestration layers
- Setting up alerts for suspicious activities and failed security checks
- Correlating events across SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC tools
- Using SIEM platforms to detect anomalous pipeline behavior
- Employing SOAR playbooks for automated response to security events
- Detecting compromised build agents and unauthorized access
- Monitoring for credential misuse and privilege escalation
- Tracking pipeline performance alongside security metrics
- Creating executive dashboards for DevSecOps KPIs
- Integrating with incident management tools like Jira and ServiceNow
- Conducting root cause analysis for recurring weaknesses
- Automating containment actions for high-severity findings
- Logging all remediation activities for audit completeness
- Using monitoring data to refine security policies over time
Module 13: Governance, Compliance & Audit Readiness - Mapping DevSecOps controls to regulatory frameworks
- Automating evidence collection for compliance reporting
- Generating real-time compliance dashboards for auditors
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits
- Documenting control ownership and implementation status
- Using compliance as code to enforce standards across pipelines
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralized oversight
- Creating audit trails for all security decisions and exceptions
- Establishing version-controlled policy repositories
- Automating policy distribution and enforcement consistency
- Conducting internal compliance reviews and gap assessments
- Responding to auditor inquiries with verifiable data
- Reducing audit preparation time from weeks to hours
- Producing executive summaries of security posture
- Aligning compliance efforts with business risk strategy
Module 14: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise Adoption - Creating standardized DevSecOps playbooks for consistent rollout
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for security enablement
- Training security champions across development teams
- Designing onboarding programs for new hires and contractors
- Measuring adoption through tooling usage and compliance rates
- Integrating feedback loops to improve developer experience
- Reducing friction through self-service security tooling
- Running tabletop exercises for pipeline breach scenarios
- Managing technical debt in security automation
- Coordinating DevSecOps initiatives across geographies
- Aligning incentives between development, security, and operations
- Leveraging gamification to boost participation and awareness
- Tracking progress with DevSecOps maturity models
- Reporting ROI to executives using risk reduction and time-to-market
- Scaling securely from monorepos to microservices with governance
Module 15: Certification, Final Assessment & Next Steps - Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools
- Implementing short-lived, just-in-time credentials in CI/CD
- Integrating with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace
- Using workload identity federation for cloud access without static keys
- Enabling impersonation and delegation with fine-grained permissions
- Rotating API keys and service account credentials automatically
- Managing secrets with centralized vault solutions
- Injecting secrets at runtime with secure retrieval patterns
- Preventing secrets leakage in logs, errors, and console output
- Detecting secrets in code with pattern matching and entropy analysis
- Configuring alerts and auto-remediation for leaked credentials
- Applying least privilege with granular IAM roles and policies
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication for administrative access
- Logging and monitoring privileged actions across environments
- Integrating identity telemetry into SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Documenting access controls for SOC 2, ISO, and PCI audits
Module 10: Threat Modeling & Risk Reduction at Scale - Applying STRIDE and DREAD methodologies to CI/CD components
- Identifying threats in build agents, registries, and orchestration tools
- Automating threat model updates based on pipeline changes
- Documenting data flows and trust boundaries in delivery workflows
- Generating risk heatmaps for CI/CD infrastructure and software assets
- Integrating threat modeling into sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Using threat libraries for consistent, repeatable assessments
- Quantifying risk exposure with likelihood and impact scoring
- Linking mitigation strategies to control implementation
- Validating controls through red team exercises and simulations
- Automating risk acceptance workflows with audit trails
- Tracking unresolved risks and exception lifecycles
- Communicating risk posture to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Updating threat models in response to new vulnerabilities
- Using threat modeling to inform insurance and cyber liability decisions
Module 11: Secure Release Management & Deployment Controls - Designing safe deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, feature flags
- Implementing gated promotions between environments
- Using approval workflows with audit trails for production releases
- Automating compliance checks before deployment
- Verifying artifact integrity with checksums and signatures
- Validating environment parity to reduce configuration drift
- Enabling rollback mechanisms with automated recovery triggers
- Monitoring deployment success with health probes and metrics
- Linking deployment events to security incidents and audit logs
- Integrating change advisory board (CAB) processes with automation
- Managing emergency bypasses with time-bound overrides and reviews
- Enforcing mandatory security checklists for high-risk changes
- Using deployment freeze windows during audits and fiscal closures
- Generating release compliance reports for governance teams
- Automating post-deployment security validation scans
Module 12: Continuous Monitoring, Detection & Response - Instrumenting CI/CD pipelines with actionable telemetry
- Collecting logs from build agents, containers, and orchestration layers
- Setting up alerts for suspicious activities and failed security checks
- Correlating events across SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC tools
- Using SIEM platforms to detect anomalous pipeline behavior
- Employing SOAR playbooks for automated response to security events
- Detecting compromised build agents and unauthorized access
- Monitoring for credential misuse and privilege escalation
- Tracking pipeline performance alongside security metrics
- Creating executive dashboards for DevSecOps KPIs
- Integrating with incident management tools like Jira and ServiceNow
- Conducting root cause analysis for recurring weaknesses
- Automating containment actions for high-severity findings
- Logging all remediation activities for audit completeness
- Using monitoring data to refine security policies over time
Module 13: Governance, Compliance & Audit Readiness - Mapping DevSecOps controls to regulatory frameworks
- Automating evidence collection for compliance reporting
- Generating real-time compliance dashboards for auditors
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits
- Documenting control ownership and implementation status
- Using compliance as code to enforce standards across pipelines
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralized oversight
- Creating audit trails for all security decisions and exceptions
- Establishing version-controlled policy repositories
- Automating policy distribution and enforcement consistency
- Conducting internal compliance reviews and gap assessments
- Responding to auditor inquiries with verifiable data
- Reducing audit preparation time from weeks to hours
- Producing executive summaries of security posture
- Aligning compliance efforts with business risk strategy
Module 14: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise Adoption - Creating standardized DevSecOps playbooks for consistent rollout
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for security enablement
- Training security champions across development teams
- Designing onboarding programs for new hires and contractors
- Measuring adoption through tooling usage and compliance rates
- Integrating feedback loops to improve developer experience
- Reducing friction through self-service security tooling
- Running tabletop exercises for pipeline breach scenarios
- Managing technical debt in security automation
- Coordinating DevSecOps initiatives across geographies
- Aligning incentives between development, security, and operations
- Leveraging gamification to boost participation and awareness
- Tracking progress with DevSecOps maturity models
- Reporting ROI to executives using risk reduction and time-to-market
- Scaling securely from monorepos to microservices with governance
Module 15: Certification, Final Assessment & Next Steps - Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools
- Designing safe deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, feature flags
- Implementing gated promotions between environments
- Using approval workflows with audit trails for production releases
- Automating compliance checks before deployment
- Verifying artifact integrity with checksums and signatures
- Validating environment parity to reduce configuration drift
- Enabling rollback mechanisms with automated recovery triggers
- Monitoring deployment success with health probes and metrics
- Linking deployment events to security incidents and audit logs
- Integrating change advisory board (CAB) processes with automation
- Managing emergency bypasses with time-bound overrides and reviews
- Enforcing mandatory security checklists for high-risk changes
- Using deployment freeze windows during audits and fiscal closures
- Generating release compliance reports for governance teams
- Automating post-deployment security validation scans
Module 12: Continuous Monitoring, Detection & Response - Instrumenting CI/CD pipelines with actionable telemetry
- Collecting logs from build agents, containers, and orchestration layers
- Setting up alerts for suspicious activities and failed security checks
- Correlating events across SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC tools
- Using SIEM platforms to detect anomalous pipeline behavior
- Employing SOAR playbooks for automated response to security events
- Detecting compromised build agents and unauthorized access
- Monitoring for credential misuse and privilege escalation
- Tracking pipeline performance alongside security metrics
- Creating executive dashboards for DevSecOps KPIs
- Integrating with incident management tools like Jira and ServiceNow
- Conducting root cause analysis for recurring weaknesses
- Automating containment actions for high-severity findings
- Logging all remediation activities for audit completeness
- Using monitoring data to refine security policies over time
Module 13: Governance, Compliance & Audit Readiness - Mapping DevSecOps controls to regulatory frameworks
- Automating evidence collection for compliance reporting
- Generating real-time compliance dashboards for auditors
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits
- Documenting control ownership and implementation status
- Using compliance as code to enforce standards across pipelines
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralized oversight
- Creating audit trails for all security decisions and exceptions
- Establishing version-controlled policy repositories
- Automating policy distribution and enforcement consistency
- Conducting internal compliance reviews and gap assessments
- Responding to auditor inquiries with verifiable data
- Reducing audit preparation time from weeks to hours
- Producing executive summaries of security posture
- Aligning compliance efforts with business risk strategy
Module 14: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise Adoption - Creating standardized DevSecOps playbooks for consistent rollout
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for security enablement
- Training security champions across development teams
- Designing onboarding programs for new hires and contractors
- Measuring adoption through tooling usage and compliance rates
- Integrating feedback loops to improve developer experience
- Reducing friction through self-service security tooling
- Running tabletop exercises for pipeline breach scenarios
- Managing technical debt in security automation
- Coordinating DevSecOps initiatives across geographies
- Aligning incentives between development, security, and operations
- Leveraging gamification to boost participation and awareness
- Tracking progress with DevSecOps maturity models
- Reporting ROI to executives using risk reduction and time-to-market
- Scaling securely from monorepos to microservices with governance
Module 15: Certification, Final Assessment & Next Steps - Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools
- Mapping DevSecOps controls to regulatory frameworks
- Automating evidence collection for compliance reporting
- Generating real-time compliance dashboards for auditors
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits
- Documenting control ownership and implementation status
- Using compliance as code to enforce standards across pipelines
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralized oversight
- Creating audit trails for all security decisions and exceptions
- Establishing version-controlled policy repositories
- Automating policy distribution and enforcement consistency
- Conducting internal compliance reviews and gap assessments
- Responding to auditor inquiries with verifiable data
- Reducing audit preparation time from weeks to hours
- Producing executive summaries of security posture
- Aligning compliance efforts with business risk strategy
Module 14: Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams & Enterprise Adoption - Creating standardized DevSecOps playbooks for consistent rollout
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for security enablement
- Training security champions across development teams
- Designing onboarding programs for new hires and contractors
- Measuring adoption through tooling usage and compliance rates
- Integrating feedback loops to improve developer experience
- Reducing friction through self-service security tooling
- Running tabletop exercises for pipeline breach scenarios
- Managing technical debt in security automation
- Coordinating DevSecOps initiatives across geographies
- Aligning incentives between development, security, and operations
- Leveraging gamification to boost participation and awareness
- Tracking progress with DevSecOps maturity models
- Reporting ROI to executives using risk reduction and time-to-market
- Scaling securely from monorepos to microservices with governance
Module 15: Certification, Final Assessment & Next Steps - Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools
- Completing the comprehensive final implementation project
- Documenting your organization-specific DevSecOps rollout plan
- Validating secure pipeline design against industry standards
- Submitting your project for structured feedback and review
- Receiving a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding how to display your certification professionally
- Accessing post-course resources and update notifications
- Joining the alumni network for continued learning and support
- Exploring advanced specializations in cloud, containers, and compliance
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with verifiable achievement
- Leveraging certification in performance reviews and promotions
- Accessing job board partnerships and career advancement opportunities
- Planning your next security automation initiative
- Setting personal and team DevSecOps goals for Q1 execution
- Receiving regular content updates on emerging threats and tools