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Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer: Implement a Secure and Compliant Development Process

by Neil Morrissey

This course will teach you how to implement secure development practices and automated security testing into your Azure DevOps Pipelines. You'll learn to integrate code scanning, penetration testing, and secret management into Pipelines.

What you'll learn

It's no longer acceptable to just perform security testing at the end of long development cycles. With modern DevOps practices, frequent production releases are normal, so an approach is needed to automate security testing in the CI/CD process. In this course, Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer: Implement a Secure and Compliant Development Process, you'll learn how to implement secure development practices in your Azure DevOps Pipelines. First, you'll learn how to integrate automated code scanning in your pipelines to detect coding errors that could cause security vulnerabilities. Next, you'll discover how to implement tasks to detect vulnerabilities in open source libraries your code uses. Then, you'll explore how to automatically conduct a penetration test when your application is deployed to a test environment. Finally, you'll learn how to properly handle application secrets like database passwords or certificates in your deployment process. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge needed to integrate secure development practices into your Azure DevOps Pipelines.

About the author

Neil has worked on everything from early mobile .NET compact framework apps to modern Azure based web apps during his years in IT. As a developer and architect, he has focused on .NET and JavaScript application development, security, and hosting across a variety of Microsoft platforms, including ASP.NET, SharePoint, and Dynamics CRM. Neil has several Microsoft Certifications, including MCPD, MCSA, and MCSD.

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