HIGAET DevSecOps
Shift security left across code, pipelines, images, and runtime by adding threat modeling, secrets handling, scanning, policy checks, monitoring, and disciplined incident response habits.
Duration
8 weeks · 6-8 hours/week
Level
Advanced
Delivery
Online
Status
Open for enrollment
Why this technology matters.
DevSecOps means building security into every step of delivery instead of bolting it on at the end: threat models, safe pipeline design, automated scans, and careful secrets handling. You learn to catch risky code, vulnerable dependencies, and leaky images early, then watch runtime and respond calmly. It matters now because fast releases multiply the cost of a single leaked secret or unpatched image.
Practitioners write risk-ranked threat models, harden CI with least-privilege runners and signed artifacts, automate static analysis and image scanning, and manage secrets with rotation plus monitoring and incident habits. It solves early detection, repeatable policy checks, and safer handling of credentials. It does not eliminate all risk or fix fundamentally unsafe designs, and scanners do not replace judgment about what matters most.
By the end you will be able to build a threat model with risk-ranked pipeline controls, a hardened CI setup with scanning for code, dependencies, and images, and a secrets management and rotation workflow with monitoring and incident notes.
Why this course exists
The gap is between a pipeline that ships fast and one that ships fast while keeping code, images, and credentials verifiably safe. This course teaches the arc from design to code to pipeline to artifact to runtime to response. You leave with disciplined habits for shifting security left without slowing delivery to a halt.
Know exactly what you're signing up for.
Who is this for
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Git and CI pipelines
- Basic container and deployment concepts
- Understanding of application delivery workflows
Technologies & tools
Skills you'll gain
A 8 weeks arc, module by module.
- Module 01
Module 01 — DevSecOps Foundations and Threat Modeling
- Module 02
Module 02 — Secure Coding and Dependency Management
- Module 03
Module 03 — Pipeline Security and Artifact Integrity
- Module 04
Module 04 — Secrets Management and Identity Controls
- Module 05
Module 05 — Container and Infrastructure Scanning
- Module 06
Module 06 — Policy Guardrails and Compliance Checks
- Module 07
Module 07 — Runtime Monitoring and Incident Response
- Module 08
Module 08 — Capstone: Harden an End-to-End Delivery Pipeline
Practical Training Flow
Learning → Guided Labs → Independent Practice → Industry Project → Capstone → Portfolio → Career Preparation. Practical hours are tracked alongside instructional hours and surfaced on the certificate.
Delivery as HIGAET Practical Training / Experiential Learning.
What you'll be able to do.
- Develop threat models and risk-ranked controls for delivery pipelines.
- Secure CI pipelines with least-privilege runners, signed artifacts, and reviews.
- Automate static analysis, dependency checks, and container image scanning.
- Integrate secrets management and rotation into builds and deployments.
- Evaluate runtime posture with hardening checks and vulnerability triage.
- Design policy guardrails that block risky changes without slowing teams.
- Deploy signed, traceable releases with audit-ready change records.
- Optimize response with detection playbooks and structured postmortems.
You will build.
Every project ships as HIGAET Practical Training / Experiential Learning — portfolio-ready work, not exercises.
- Project 01
Risk-ranked threat model for a pipeline
- Project 02
Hardened CI pipeline with signed artifacts
- Project 03
Automated code and image scanning workflow
- Capstone
Secure pipeline with secrets rotation and incident response
Speak the language first.
- Threat modeling
- A structured review that lists what can go wrong and ranks controls by risk.
- Least-privilege pipeline runners
- Build agents given only the narrow permissions needed for their job.
- Signed artifacts
- Build outputs with verifiable signatures that prove they came from a trusted pipeline.
- Static application analysis
- Automated scans of source code that flag risky patterns before runtime.
- Dependency and image scanning
- Checks of libraries and container images for known vulnerabilities.
- Secrets management and rotation
- Central storage plus scheduled replacement of passwords, keys, and tokens.
- Policy checks in pipelines
- Automated rules that block builds violating security baselines.
- Runtime monitoring and incident response
- Detection of live attacks plus practiced steps to contain and recover.
Fix, check, and go deeper.
Troubleshooting & common mistakes
Scanner floods pipeline with false positives
Tune rule severity, add scoped suppressions with reasons, and gate only on high-confidence findings.
Secrets leaked into build logs
Mask secret variables, revoke the exposed value, rotate replacements, and re-run from a clean build.
Signed artifact verification fails in staging
Check key version and signing step order, re-sign with the current key, and verify the trust chain.
Image scan blocks release at the last minute
Pin a patched base image, rebuild early in the pipeline, and add daily scheduled scans.
Policy check rejects compliant change
Read the failing rule output, correct tags or config fields, and update the rule docs if intent changed.
Before you move on, you should be able to
- Develop threat models with risk-ranked controls for pipelines
- Secure CI pipelines with least-privilege runners and signed artifacts
- Automate static analysis, dependency checks, and image scanning
- Integrate secrets management and rotation into builds and deployments
- Add policy checks and runtime monitoring to delivery
- Respond to security incidents with disciplined containment and review
Start your application.
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