HIGAET DevSecOps Security
Learn to embed defensive checks into delivery pipelines while building secret handling, image scanning, and deployment guardrails for sample services.
Duration
8 weeks · 6-8 hours/week
Level
Advanced
Delivery
Online
Status
Open for enrollment
Why this technology matters.
DevSecOps security is the discipline of embedding defensive checks directly into the software delivery pipeline. It matters now because fast releases can ship leaked secrets, vulnerable images, and misconfigured infrastructure if nothing checks along the way. This course teaches guardrails that help teams move fast without breaking trust, using sample services.
You will use these checks in engineering teams: pipeline stages with security gates and approvals, secret handling and artifact protection, and container image and dependency scanning. This solves late-discovered flaws — catching risky changes before they deploy. It does not solve everything: scanners do not fix insecure design, gates do not fix skipped reviews, and policy checks do not fix unclear deployment ownership.
By the end you will be able to build a delivery pipeline with security gates and approvals, a secret handling and artifact protection workflow, and a scanning stage covering container images, dependencies, and infrastructure policy checks for lab environments.
Why this course exists
The gap is between a pipeline that ships fast and one that ships fast and safely. This course closes it with an arc from gates to secrets to scanning to policy: add security stages with approvals, protect secrets and artifacts, scan images and dependencies, then enforce infrastructure policy checks before deployment.
Know exactly what you're signing up for.
Who is this for
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git
- Basic container and cloud concepts
- Comfort with command line workflows
Technologies & tools
Skills you'll gain
A 8 weeks arc, module by module.
- Module 01
Module 01 — Foundations: DevSecOps models and pipeline risk points
- Module 02
Module 02 — Source Defense: Branch controls and secret handling
- Module 03
Module 03 — Build Checks: Dependencies and artifact protection
- Module 04
Module 04 — Core: Container scanning and image baselines
- Module 05
Module 05 — Engineering: Infrastructure policy and configuration checks
- Module 06
Module 06 — Release: Deployment guardrails and approvals
- Module 07
Module 07 — Observability: Post-release monitoring and feedback
- Module 08
Module 08 — Capstone: Secured pipeline with gates and release report
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.
- Build pipeline stages with security gates and approvals
- Design secret handling and artifact protection workflows
- Develop container image and dependency scanning checks
- Deploy infrastructure policy checks for lab environments
- Integrate DAST-style defensive reviews into staging
- Evaluate pipeline failures and document remediation paths
- Secure CI runners and deployment credentials defensively
- Automate security summaries for release review meetings
You will build.
Every project ships as HIGAET Practical Training / Experiential Learning — portfolio-ready work, not exercises.
- Project 01
Pipeline with security gates and approvals
- Project 02
Secret handling and artifact workflow
- Project 03
Image and dependency scanning stage
- Project 04
Infrastructure policy checks for labs
- Capstone
Secured delivery pipeline with gates, scanning, and deployment guardrails
Speak the language first.
- Security gates in pipelines
- Checkpoints in a delivery pipeline that block or flag builds when defensive scans find serious issues.
- Secret handling
- Practices for storing and injecting passwords, tokens, and keys safely so they never appear in code or logs.
- Artifact protection
- Controls that keep build outputs tamper-free through versioning, checksums, and restricted publishing.
- Container image scanning
- Automated checks of container images for known vulnerable packages and risky configurations before deployment.
- Dependency scanning
- Reviewing third-party libraries in a project for known vulnerabilities and outdated versions.
- Infrastructure policy checks
- Automated rules that verify lab infrastructure settings against allowed baselines before resources deploy.
- Deployment guardrails
- Approval steps and environment protections that prevent unsafe changes from reaching production-like labs.
- Pipeline approvals
- Defined review steps where a qualified person confirms security checks passed before release proceeds.
Fix, check, and go deeper.
Troubleshooting & common mistakes
Pipeline gate blocks every build including safe changes
Review gate thresholds and scan scope, distinguish blocking severities from warnings, and re-run the pipeline on a known-good sample.
Secrets leak into build logs or committed files
Search logs and history for the exposed value, rotate the secret, then move it to a managed secret store with masked pipeline variables.
Image scan flags large numbers of low-risk findings
Group findings by severity and fixability, update base images first, then document accepted low risks with review dates.
Infrastructure policy check fails on valid lab templates
Compare the template against the policy rule text, correct misnamed fields or regions, and validate with a minimal template.
Dependency scan breaks after a version upgrade
Check the lockfile and scanner version for format changes, pin versions, and re-run the scan on the prior known-good commit.
Before you move on, you should be able to
- Build pipeline stages with security gates and approval steps
- Design secret handling and artifact protection workflows for sample services
- Develop container image and dependency scanning checks
- Deploy infrastructure policy checks for lab environments
- Explain how deployment guardrails prevent unsafe releases
- Evaluate scan results to prioritize defensive remediation
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