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DevSecOps Professional Training Course

Learn to build security into the pipeline from the first commit — secure coding, automated testing, vulnerability management, and compliance as code, taught the way you'll use it in production.

72
Training hours
10+
Curriculum modules
46
Tools touched
4.8/5
Average rating

About This Course

The DevSecOps Professional Training Course teaches the philosophy of security as code: building security into the development pipeline from the very beginning rather than treating it as a separate process at the end. You will cover secure coding practices, automated security testing, threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, configuration management, compliance monitoring, and incident response — all inside real DevOps workflows.

By the end, you will be able to automate security checks in modern CI/CD pipelines, apply best practices in cloud-native environments, and manage evolving threats without sacrificing speed. Just as importantly, you will know how to foster collaboration between development, security, and operations teams and drive continuous security improvement.

Why This Course Matters

Security can no longer be an afterthought. Teams that master DevSecOps detect and fix vulnerabilities early (reducing cost and risk), maintain delivery speed while improving quality, achieve regulatory compliance through continuous automated checks, and protect organizational assets against evolving threats — all without delaying releases.

OUTCOMES / VERIFIED

What You Walk Away With

  • Embed security into DevOps workflows using the security-as-code philosophy
  • Automate security testing and vulnerability assessment in CI/CD pipelines
  • Secure cloud-native applications and manage IaC safely
  • Identify, manage, and remediate vulnerabilities proactively
  • Run risk assessments, threat modeling, and incident response planning
  • Drive shared security responsibility across dev, ops, and security teams
  • Prepare for the Certified DevSecOps Professional exam

MODULES / SEQUENCED

Training Agenda

  • DevSecOps concepts, terminology, and objectives
  • DevOps vs DevSecOps and why the difference matters
  • Roles and responsibilities of a DevSecOps professional
  • Common adoption challenges and how to solve them

  • Building a collaborative, security-focused culture
  • Shift-left mindset — importance and strategies
  • Security Champions and cross-team communication

  • Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) overview
  • OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities in practice
  • SAST and DAST integration approaches
  • Software Composition Analysis and dependency security

  • Security checks in CI/CD workflows
  • Automating security gates and quality checks
  • Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions integration
  • Automated vulnerability scanning and remediation

  • IaC security for Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
  • Automated compliance checking and auditing
  • Secure cloud deployment on AWS, Azure, GCP

  • Container security best practices and image hardening
  • Vulnerability scanning and runtime security
  • Kubernetes RBAC, network policies, secure registries

  • Secrets handling with Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
  • IAM, RBAC, MFA, and zero-trust principles

  • Continuous monitoring and SIEM fundamentals
  • Incident response automation with SOAR patterns
  • Log analysis and proactive threat detection

  • GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, CIS, NIST frameworks
  • Compliance-as-code and automated audit reporting
  • Risk assessment methodologies

  • SAST, DAST, and IAST testing methods compared
  • Secrets scanning and credential-leak detection
  • Runtime protection and monitoring

LAB-ENV / ACTIVE

Hands-on Labs and Projects

  • LAB-01 Stand up a CI pipeline with SAST, SCA, and secret-scanning gates from scratch
  • LAB-02 Add DAST scanning to a staging deploy and triage real findings
  • LAB-03 Harden container images and enforce Kubernetes security policies
  • LAB-04 Scan Terraform with Checkov/tfsec and fix the violations
  • LAB-05 Build an automated compliance report mapped to CIS benchmarks

TOOL-GRID

Tools and Technologies Covered

  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Azure DevOps
  • SonarQube
  • OWASP ZAP
  • Snyk
  • Trivy
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Vault
  • Terraform
  • Checkov
  • tfsec
  • AWS / Azure / GCP

TARGET / OPERATORS

Who This Is For

  • DevOps engineers integrating security into workflows
  • Security engineers automating pipeline security
  • Software developers adopting secure coding practices
  • System administrators and cloud engineers
  • IT operations and cybersecurity specialists
  • Technical leads responsible for secure delivery

PRE-FLIGHT / CHECK

Prerequisites

  • Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and Git
  • Comfort with Linux command line and basic scripting
  • Exposure to containers or cloud platforms is helpful

FAQ / DECRYPTED

Frequently Asked Questions

Instructor-led live sessions (online or classroom in Bangalore/Hyderabad) with hands-on labs, case studies, group exercises, quizzes, and simulated CI/CD pipeline security work — 72 hours at about 4 hours per day.

Yes — it is the preparation track for the Certified DevSecOps Professional exam, combining practical labs with exam-readiness assessments and practice tests.

No. The course is designed for delivery-side engineers and admins; security concepts are taught from first principles and immediately applied in labs.

A course completion certificate, 10 sets of study PDFs, lab artifacts you can reuse at work, and readiness for the proctored certification exam.

INITIATE / CONTACT

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