DevSecOps is propelling forward-thinking organizations by doing something simple – fostering collaboration of seemingly contradictory teams to align their disparate goals into a singular effort.

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THE MARRIAGE OF SECOPS AND DEVOPS
Adapted from material presented by DevOps.com and Evident.io
Sebastian Taphanel, CISSP-ISSEP
Principal Solutions Architect
September 29th, 2016

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Alan Shimel, Founder and Editor-In-Chief at DevOps.com, is an often-cited personality in the
security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government
events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong
business background with a deep knowledge of technology.
CEO Tim Prendergast co-founded Evident.io to help others avoid the pain he endured when
helping Adobe adopt the cloud at a massive level. After years of building, operating, and securing
services in AWS, he set out to make security approachable and repeatable for companies of all
sizes. Tim led technology teams at Adobe, Ingenuity, Ticketmaster, and McAfee.
Original Contributors:
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Gene Kim is a multiple award winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO
of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, including The Phoenix Project: A Novel
About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win and the upcoming DevOps Handbook. He
has worked with some of the top Internet companies on improving deployment flow and
increasing the rigor around IT operational processes.
Shannon Lietz has over two decades of experience pursuing advanced security defenses and
next generation security solutions. Ms. Lietz is currently the DevSecOps Leader for Intuit where
she is responsible for setting and driving the company’s cloud security strategy, roadmap and
implementation in support of corporate innovation. Previous to joining Intuit, Ms. Lietz worked
for ServiceNow, Sony, and consulted for many Fortune 500 organizations.

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…DevSecOps is an Evolving Story

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CLOUD SECURITY THEN AND NOW
From:
To:

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DEVSECOPS: INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
Issues:
• DevOps Requires Continuous Deployments
• Fast Decision Making is Critical to Success
• Traditional Security Doesn’t Scale or Move Fast Enough
DevSecOps Solutions:
• Security Automation
• Security to Scale
• Objective Criteria
• Proactive Security Monitoring
• Continuous Detection & Response

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THE DEVSECOPS MANIFESTO
• Leaning in vs. Saying “No”
• Data & Security Science vs. FUD
• Open Collaboration vs. Security-Only Requirements
• Security Services with APIs vs. Mandated Controls
• Business Driven Security vs. Rubber Stamp Security
• Red & Blue Team Exploit Testing vs. Theoretical Vulnerabilities
• 24x7 Proactive Security vs. Reacting
• Shared Threat Intelligence vs. Silos
• Compliance Operations vs. Checklists
Via: http://www.devsecops.org

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SECURITY AS CODE
The code that describes the infrastructure should inherit the
same values applied to application code:
• Not JUST Revision Control
• Make Use of Bug Tracking/Ticketing Systems
• Peer Reviews of Changes Before They Happen
• Establish Infrastructure Code Patterns/Designs
• Test Infrastructure Changes Like Code Changes Security as Code
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SECURITY VIA API’S
• Programmatically Test Environments
• Determine State at a Specific Point in Time
• Repeatable Processes
• Scalable Operations
• Easy Automation
• Repeatable
• Auditable
• Easy to Iterate
• Environmental Consistency

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DEVSECOPS IS A TEAM SPORT
Operations
Red Team
Blue Team
Developers
Security

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BE READY TO MAKE DECISIONS

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DEVSECOPS SUCCESS
Keys to Success:
• Detecting and Resolving Security Issues Quickly
• Using Native Security Capabilities When Possible
• Enlisting and Enabling the Organization
• Educating Inline with Bite-Size Chunks

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DEVSECOPS PRINCIPLES
• DevSecOps is a Journey, not a Destination
• Small Security Teams Can Have a Profound Impact
• Organize Around Self-Service and Enablement
• Translate Security for the Layperson
• Perfection is the Enemy… get Rugged

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Alan Shimel
• DevOps.com
• ashimmy@devops.com
• @ashimmy
Gene Kim
• genek@itrevolution.net
• @RealGeneKim
Tim Prendergast:
• Evident.io
• Tim@evident.io
• @auxome
Original
Contributors:
Shannon Lietz
• Intuit.com
• Shannon_Lietz@intuit.com

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