Implement security validations for application development

• DevOps practices offer an innovative approach to security:
  • Securing applications is a continuous, comprehensive process encompassing:
    • Secure infrastructure
    • Architectural design with layered security
    • Continuous security validation
    • Monitoring for attacks
• CI/CD pipeline should include validation points:
  • IDE/pull request:
    • Using Git source control in Azure DevOps with branch policies
    • Requiring code review with each pull request
    • Linking commits to work items for auditing
  • CI:
    • Running static code analysis tests
  • Application deployment to DEV and TEST
    • Performing passive and active tests

Configure synthetic security transactions

• Primary characteristics of synthetic transactions:
  • Represent the capability to check an application’s availability across a network
  • Are automated and self-contained
  • Simulate user transactions
• Implementing synthetic user monitoring:
  • Requires authoring test clients that simulate user actions
  • Performs configurable but typical series of operations
  • Facilitates load testing by using multiple instances of the test client