11 Assessing risks

This chapter covers

  • An introduction to risk management

  • Categorizing information into confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements

  • Threat modeling with the STRIDE and DREAD frameworks

  • Using rapid risk assessment to integrate reviews in the DevOps process

  • Recording and tracking risks in the organization

At the start of the book, you secured a single, small invoicer service hosted in a basic AWS environment. Yet, it took the better part of 10 chapters to cover all the controls necessary to properly secure that one service.

Organizations don’t stay small; they grow, and as they do, security teams must audit more deployment pipelines, implement more controls in more services, and perform more incident response. ...

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