building-devsecops-pipeline-with-gitlab-ci
Design and implement a comprehensive DevSecOps pipeline in GitLab CI/CD integrating SAST, DAST, container scanning, dependency scanning, and secret detection.
Design and implement a comprehensive DevSecOps pipeline in GitLab CI/CD integrating SAST, DAST, container scanning, dependency scanning, and secret detection.
Establish a structured operational process to triage, test, and deploy Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates within risk-based remediation SLAs.
Building a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) involves deploying and integrating multiple CTI tools into a unified system for collecting, analyzing, enriching, and disseminating threat intelligence. T
Deploy DefectDojo as a centralized vulnerability management dashboard with scanner integrations, deduplication, metrics tracking, and Jira ticketing workflows.
This skill covers implementing code signing for build artifacts to ensure integrity and authenticity throughout the software supply chain. It addresses signing binaries, packages, and containers using GPG, Sigstore, and platform-specific signing tools, establishing trust chains, and verifying signatures in deployment pipelines.
Deploy Breach and Attack Simulation tools to continuously validate security control effectiveness by safely emulating real-world attack techniques across the kill chain.
Implement Just-In-Time (JIT) access provisioning to eliminate standing privileges by granting temporary, time-bound access only when needed. This skill covers JIT architecture design, approval workflo
Patch management is the systematic process of identifying, testing, deploying, and verifying software updates to remediate vulnerabilities across an organization's IT infrastructure. An effective patc
Integrate gitleaks and trufflehog into CI/CD pipelines to detect leaked secrets before deployment
This skill covers integrating OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) for Dynamic Application Security Testing in CI/CD pipelines. It addresses configuring baseline, full, and API scans against running applications, interpreting ZAP findings, tuning scan policies, and establishing DAST quality gates in GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
This skill covers integrating Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools—CodeQL and Semgrep—into GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. It addresses configuring automated code scanning on pull requests and pushes, tuning rules to reduce false positives, uploading SARIF results to GitHub Advanced Security, and establishing quality gates that block merges when high-severity vulnerabilities are detected.
Conduct red team operations using the Covenant C2 framework for authorized adversary simulation, including listener setup, grunt deployment, task execution, and lateral movement tracking.
Deploy and configure Velociraptor for scalable endpoint forensic artifact collection during incident response using VQL queries, hunts, and pre-built artifact packs across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.
Auditing Terraform infrastructure-as-code for security misconfigurations using Checkov, tfsec, Terrascan, and OPA/Rego policies to detect overly permissive IAM policies, public resource exposure, missing encryption, and insecure defaults before cloud deployment.
Build and configure a resilient command-and-control infrastructure using BishopFox's Sliver C2 framework with redirectors, HTTPS listeners, and multi-operator support for authorized red team engagements.
Detecting misconfigured Azure Storage accounts including publicly accessible blob containers, missing encryption settings, overly permissive SAS tokens, disabled logging, and network access violations using Azure CLI, PowerShell, and Microsoft Defender for Storage.
Implementing Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to continuously monitor multi-cloud environments for misconfigurations, compliance violations, and security risks using Prowler, ScoutSuite, AWS Security Hub, Azure Defender, and GCP Security Command Center.
Implement Cloud Security Posture Management using AWS Security Hub, Azure Defender for Cloud, and open-source tools like Prowler and ScoutSuite for multi-cloud vulnerability detection.
This skill covers implementing automated security scanning for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using tools like Checkov, tfsec, and KICS. It addresses detecting misconfigurations in Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm charts before deployment, establishing policy-based governance, and integrating IaC scanning into CI/CD pipelines to prevent insecure cloud resource provisioning.
Implementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) in cloud environments by configuring identity-aware proxies, micro-segmentation, continuous verification with conditional access policies, and replacing traditional VPN-based access with BeyondCorp-style architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Perform comprehensive cloud asset inventory and relationship mapping using Cartography to build a Neo4j security graph of infrastructure assets, IAM permissions, and attack paths across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Execute cloud-native incident containment across AWS, Azure, and GCP by isolating compromised resources, revoking credentials, preserving forensic evidence, and applying security group restrictions to prevent lateral movement.
This skill instructs security practitioners on deploying Microsoft Defender for Cloud as a cloud-native application protection platform for Azure, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. It covers enabling Defender plans for servers, containers, storage, and databases, configuring security recommendations, managing Secure Score, and integrating with the unified Defender portal for centralized threat management.
Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are tamper-resistant physical devices that safeguard cryptographic keys and perform cryptographic operations in a hardened environment. Keys stored in an HSM never lea