DevSecOps (Fundamental to Advance)

• What is DevOps?
• History and Evolution
• Key principles and practices (CI/CD, automation, collaboration)
• Benefits of DevOps
• Challenges with traditional IT

• Setting up a basic development environment
• Version control (Git) basics
• Introduction to cloud platforms (AWS,GCP) 

• The need for DevSecOps
• Shifting security left
• Key components of DevSecOps
• Benefits of DevSecOps

• Deep dive into CI/CD pipeline stages
• Roles and responsibilities in a DevOps team
• Collaboration and communication 

• Introduction to IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Benefits of IaC
• Security considerations in IaC

• Ansible, Puppet
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Security best practices

• Building a security-conscious culture
• Security champions
• Training and awareness programs 

Identifying potential threats

Risk assessment and mitigation 

• OWASP Top 10
• Secure coding standards and guidelines
• Code reviews and static analysis

• CI tools (GITHUB ACTIONS CI/CD)
• Build automation
• Unit and integration testing
• Security testing in CI (SAST, SCA) 

• CD pipelines
• Deployment strategies
• Canary deployments, blue-green deployments
• Security testing in CD (DAST, penetration testing) 

• Importance of secret management
• Secret management tools (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager,GKMS)
• Best practices for handling secrets

• AWS security best practices
• IAM and access control
• Cloud security posture management (CSPM)
• Cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) 

• Container security challenges
• Image scanning and vulnerability management
• Runtime protection

• Introduction to CaC
• Integrating compliance checks into CI/CD pipeline
• Compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR) 

• Measuring DevSecOps success
• Key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Reporting and dashboards