DevSecOps Engineering DSOE

The DevSecOps course is designed for:

• Those involved or interested in learning about DevSecOps strategies and automation
• Those involved in Continuous Delivery toolchain architectures
• Compliance Team, Delivery Staff. DevOps Engineers
• IT Security Professionals, Practitioners, and Managers
• Maintenance and support staff, Managed Service Providers
• Project & Product Managers, Quality Assurance Teams, Release Managers, Software Engineers, Testers
• Scrum Masters, Site Reliability Engineers

Please Note: The DevOps Foundation certification is a prerequisite for DevSecOps Engineering to ensure participants are aligned with the baseline DevOps definitions and principles.

The learning objectives for DevSecOps are:

• Understand the DevSecOps concepts and how to apply them to your role.
• Gain an understanding of how you can do security differently in your organisation, in order to improve flow and reduce risk.
• Gain a deeper understanding of culture through incentive models, generativity and culture models from Erickson, Westrum and Laloux and how cultural change is key to DevSecOps.
• Understand the importance of resilience to deal with adversity.
• Understand and be able to implement security best practices including threat modelling, risk management, basic security hygiene, federation, log management, identity, access management, application security, operational security, governance, compliance, policy-as-code and shifting left.
• Be able to improve the resiliency of your organisation by using simulations to improve incident response, forensic data collection and utilise threat intelligence and information sharing.
• Techniques for how to ensure that security, governance, risk management and compliance capabilities are involved earlier in the software development process.
• Be able to apply experimentation and collect the necessary measures to prove a specific hypothesis, i.e. such as the effective of security controls.

There are no manditory pre-requsites for this course however it's highly recommended that participants sit the DevOps Foundation course prior to ensure participants are aligned with the baseline DevOps definitions and principles.

DevSecOps Engineering Certificate Exam

Once you've completed your training, you can gain a globally recognised certification with the DevSecOps Engineering Exam. An exam voucher is provided after the training course. The exam is online and web-proctored, so you can take it any place, any time. Note: The exam voucher has a 90 Day Validity period.

DevOps Institute has engaged Kryterion Global Testing to host DevOps Institute certification examinations. For more information on sitting the online proctored exams please click here.

The exam details are as follows:

• 90 minutes
• 40 multiple choice questions
• Pass mark of 65% (26 out of 40)
• Closed book
• Web-based (single-browser), closed book, no outside assistance, timed

Successfully passing the examination leads to the candidate's designation as a certified DevSecOps Engineer (DSOE). The certification is governed and maintained by the DevOps Institute.

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1. Course Introduction

• Course Goals
• Course Agenda
• Exercise: Diagramming Your CI/CD Pipeline

2. Why DevSecOps?

• Key Terms and Concepts
• Why DevSecOps is important
• 3 Ways to Think About DevOps+Security
• Key Principles of DevSecOps

3. Culture & Management

• Incentive Model
• Resilience
• Organisational Culture
• Generativity
• Erickson, Westrum, and LaLoux
• Exercise: Influencing Culture

4. Strategic Considerations

• How Much Security is Enough?
• Threat Modeling
• Context is Everything
• Risk Management in a High-velocity World
• Exercise: Measuring For Success

5. General Security Considerations

• Avoiding the Checkbox Trap
• Basic Security Hygiene
• Architectural Considerations
• Federated Identity
• Log Management

6. IAM: Identity & Access Mgmt

• IAM Basic Concepts
• Why IAM is Important
• Implementation Guidance
• Automation Opportunities
• How to Hurt Yourself with IAM
• Exercise: Overcoming IAM Challenges

7. Application Security

• Application Security Testing (AST)
• Testing Techniques
• Prioritising Testing Techniques
• Issue Management Integration
• Leveraging Automation

8. Operational Security

• Basic Security Hygiene Practices
• Role of Operations Management
• The Ops Environment
• Exercise: Adding Security to Your CI/CD Pipeline

9. GRG & Audit

• What is GRC?
• Why Care About GRC?
• Rethinking Policies | Policy as Code
• Shifting Audit Left
• 3 Myths of Segregation of Duties vs. DevOps
• Exercise: Making Policies, Audit and Compliance Work with DevOps

10. Logging, Monitoring & Response

• Setting Up Log Management
• Incident Response and Forensics
• Threat Intelligence and Information Sharing