Certified DevSecOps ExpertTM
Take your organization to DSO Maturity Model 3 and 4 with the DevSecOps Expert Course. Learn to build the custom scripts for false positive analysis, infrastructure hardening and threat modeling as code concepts. Help your organization push code to production faster with 85% less vulnerabilities while automating the security checks in the CI/CD pipelines.
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Prerequisites
- Course participants must have the Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) certification.
- Course participants should have a basic understanding of Application Security Practices like SAST, DAST, etc.,
Chapter 1: Overview of DevSecOps
- DevOps Building Blocks- People, Process and Technology.
- DevOps Principles – Culture, Automation, Measurement and Sharing (CAMS)
- Benefits of DevOps – Speed, Reliability, Availability, Scalability, Automation, Cost and Visibility.
- Overview of the DevSecOps critical toolchain
- Repository management tools.
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Communication and sharing tools.
- Security as Code (SaC) tools.
- SDLC
- Overview of secure SDLC and CI/CD.
- Review of security activities in secure SDLC.
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
- How to move from DevSecOps Maturity Model (DSOMM) Level 2 to Level 4.
- Best practices and considerations for Maturity Level 3.
- Best practices and considerations for Maturity Level 4.
- Security automation and its limits.
- DSOMM level 3 and level 4 challenges and solutions.
Chapter 2: Security Requirements and Threat Modelling (TM)
- What is Threat Modelling?
- STRIDE vs DREAD approaches
- Threat modeling and its challenges.
- Classical Threat modeling tools and how they fit in CI/CD pipeline
- Hands-on Labs:
- Automate security requirements as code.
- Using ThreatSpec to do Threat Modelling as Code.
- Using BDD security to codify threats.
What you’ll learn from the Certified DevSecOps Expert?
Create custom rulesets to slash false positives and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines, advancing your organization from DevSecOps Maturity Model level 2 to level 4 implementations.
Use Ansible to build hardened golden images, implement container security, and manage secrets securely across both mutable and immutable infrastructure.
Automate security requirements as code, conduct threat modeling with ThreatSpec, and embed advanced SAST/DAST tools with custom rules to detect vulnerabilities early in development.
Deploy scalable vulnerability management systems that create targeted metrics for CXOs, developers, and security teams while eliminating alert fatigue through automation.
Configure advanced API security using OpenAPI/Swagger with ZAP scanners and leverage Zest Language for comprehensive DAST coverage integrated directly into your CI/CD workflow.
Design end-to-end container security from image scanning with Trivy to runtime protection, while implementing compliance-as-code for frameworks like PCI-DSS across cloud environments.
Chapter 3: Advanced Static Analysis(SAST) in CI/CD pipeline
- Why pre-commit hooks are not a good fit in DevSecOps.
- Writing custom rules to weed out false positives and improve the quality of the results.
- Various approaches to write custom rules in free and paid tools
- Regular expressions
- Abstract Syntax Trees
- Graphs ( Data and Control Flow analysis)
- Hands-on Labs:
- Writing custom checks in the bandit for your enterprise applications.
Chapter 4: Advanced Dynamic Analysis(DAST) in CI/CD pipeline
- Embedding DAST tools into the pipeline.
- Leveraging QA/Performance automation to drive DAST scans.
- Using Swagger (OpenAPI) and ZAP to scan APIs iteratively.
- Ways to handle custom authentications for ZAP Scanner.
- Using Zest Language to provide better coverage for DAST scans.
- Hands-On Labs:
- using ZAP + Selenium + Zest to configure in-depth scans
- using Burp Suite Pro to configure per commit/weekly/monthly scans.
Note: Students need to bring their Burp Suite Pro License to use in CI/CD
Chapter 5: Runtime Analysis(RASP/IAST) in CI/CD pipeline
- What is Runtime Analysis Application Security Testing?
- Differences between RASP and IAST.
- Runtime Analysis and challenges.
- RASP/IAST and its suitability in CI/CD pipeline.
- Hands-On Labs:
- A commercial implementation of the IAST tool.
Chapter 6: Infrastructure as Code(IaC) and Its Security
- Configuration management (Ansible) security
- Users/Privileges/Keys – Ansible Vault vs Tower.
- Challenges with Ansible Vault in CI/CD pipeline.
- Introduction to Packer
- Benefits of Packer.
- Templates, builders, provisioners, and post processors.
- Packer for continuous security in DevOps Pipelines.
- Tools and Services for practicing IaaC ( Packer + Ansible + Docker )
- Hands-On Labs:
- Using Ansible to harden on-prem/cloud machines for PCI-DSS
- Create hardened Golden images using Packer + Ansible
Chapter 7: Container (Docker) Security
- What is Docker
- Docker vs Vagrant
- Basics of Docker and its challenges
- Vulnerabilities in images (Public and Private)
- Denial of service attacks
- Privilege escalation methods in Docker.
- Security misconfigurations.
- Container Security
- Content Trust and Integrity checks.
- Capabilities and namespaces in Docker.
- Segregating Networks.
- Kernel Hardening using SecComp and AppArmor.
- Static Analysis of container(Docker) images.
- Dynamic Analysis of container hosts and daemons.
- Hands-On Labs:
- Scanning docker images using Trivy and its APIs.
- Auditing Docker daemon and host for security issues.
Chapter 8: Secrets management on mutable and immutable infra
- Managing secrets in traditional infrastructure.
- Managing secrets in containers at Scale.
- Secret Management in Cloud
- Version Control systems and Secrets.
- Environment Variables and Configuration files.
- Docker, Immutable systems and its security challenges.
- Secrets management with Hashicorp Vault and consul.
- Hands-On Labs:
- Securely store Encryption keys and other secrets using Vault/Consul.
Chapter 9: Advanced vulnerability management
- Approaches to manage the vulnerabilities in the organization.
- False positives and False Negatives.
- Culture and Vulnerability Management.
- Creating different metrics for CXOs, devs and security teams.
- Hands-On Labs:
- Using Defect Dojo for vulnerability management.
- Using Defect Dojo for vulnerability management.
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Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
What are the prerequisites required before enrolling in the Certified DevSecOps Expert Course?
Prerequisites for the Certified DevSecOps Expert Course include holding a Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) certification and understanding basic Application Security Practices like SAST and DAST.
What’s included in the Certified DevSecOps Expert Course package?
The DevSecOps Expert course includes 3 years of video access, 60 days of browser-based labs, 50+ guided lab exercises, a PDF manual, round-the-clock learners support, and a single exam attempt.
Do the Labs for the Certified DevSecOps Expert Course Start Immediately after enrollment?
No, course access doesn’t begin automatically upon enrollment – after purchase, you’ll select your preferred start date to activate your course period.
Does the Certified DevSecOps Expert Course come with CPE points?
Yes, the course offers 36 CPE points upon completion.
What is the Exam Format for the Certified DevSecOps Expert Course?
The exam consists of 5 challenges to be solved within 24 hours, followed by a 24-hour window to complete and submit the report for evaluation. For more information, visit this link.
Should I go to an exam center, or is the exam online?
Yes, the exam is fully online, allowing you to complete it from your home or office.
How long is the Certified DevSecOps Expert Certification valid?
DevSecOps Expert Certification is a lifetime credential. Once you’ve earned your certification, it will last throughout your career.
Why Certified DevSecOps Expert course from Practical DevSecOps?
This industry-recognized DevSecOps Expert Certification equips you with hands-on skills in state-of-the-art labs. This course focuses on practical implementation through real-world scenarios, custom ruleset creation, and enterprise-scale security automation. The rigorous 24-hour practical exam validates your expertise, making you the security leader organizations actively seek.
You’ll learn to:
- Create custom security rules that eliminate false positives in CI/CD pipelines
- Implement secures infrastructure-as-code across cloud environments
- Automate vulnerability management with targeted metrics for different stakeholders
- Configure advanced container security from build to runtime
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After two months of studying and a grueling 12-hour exam last Saturday, I'm happy to share I can now call myself a Certified DevSecOps Professional!
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After two months of studying and a grueling 12-hour Practical exam, I'm happy to share that I can now call myself a Certified DevSecOps Professional!
Warmly recommend this excellent course for technical architects, or engineers who want to gain hands-on skills on how to embed security across modern SDLC.
The labs covered running below mentioned security tools using Docker and building E2E DevOps pipeline with integrated security automation using GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions.
SCA, SAST, DAST, Infra as Code/hardening (IaC), Compliance as Code(CaC), Vulnerability mgmt
Thanks Practical DevSecOps
This was a great course with practical training for how to embed automated security scanning into a CI/CD pipeline, plus hardening and compliance checks using an everything-as-code approach. Finishing off with a challenging 12 hour practical exam and extensive report writing requirement and assessment to gain the Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) certificate. Thanks to Mohammed A. Imran and Raj Shekar of Practical DevSecOps.
After very challenging 12-hours hands-on exam and preparing extensive exam report I am now Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP)!
The quality of the course material was surprisingly good and the lab environment is better than any other that I've come across. And in the AppSec field, I have seen quite a few of them. If you want to learn about application security, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, IaC, CaC, SAST, DAST, SCA and these other crazy but very cool acronyms and buzzwords, you would be very wise to join this course.
Whoa! After completing 139 lab exercises and intensive 12 hour exam in 1,5 months, I am finally a Certified DevSecOps Professional too. 🎉
Warmly recommend this excellent course for technical Product Owners, architects or engineers who want to gain hands-on skills on how to embed security across modern SDLC.
The labs covered running below mentioned security tools using Docker and building E2E DevOps pipeline with integrated security automation using GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI and GitHub Actions.
SCA: Safety, pip-audit, RetireJS, dependency-check, Snyk, npm audit, auditjs, bundler-audit SAST: Trufflehog, detect-secrets, Bandit, Gosec, semgrep, hadolint, FindSecBugs, njsscan, pylint, Brakeman, SonarQube DAST: nikto, nmap, SSLyze, ZAP, Dastardly Infra as Code/hardening: Ansible, AnsibleVault, TFLint, Checkov, Terrascan, tfsec, Snyk Compliance as Code: Inspec for CIS Benchmark, ASVS, Docker compliance Vulnerability mgmt using DefectDojo
I am happy to share that I have lately gained the Practical DevSecOps Professional Certification (CDP).
Thanks to the Practical DevSecOps team, for both excellent material and a lot of great practical labs.
The certification finished off with a challenging 12 hours practical exam and extensive report writing.
I recently took the Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) certification from Practical DevSecOps. I would recommend the course for anybody that is interested in DevSecOps. The course material was well-written and presented. The labs were very helpful for real-world applications, and the test was a fun challenge.
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