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Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles
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Overview
Learn DevSecOps principles to integrate security throughout your development lifecycle. Understand common vulnerabilities like SQL injection, implement continuous security validation in pipelines, conduct threat modeling, and use tools like GitHub CodeQL for automated security analysis.
Syllabus 10
- Introduction 5 minutes
- Describe SQL injection attack 5 minutes
- Understand DevSecOps 5 minutes
- Explore the secure DevOps pipeline 5 minutes
- Explore key validation points 5 minutes
- Explore continuous security validation 10 minutes
- Understand threat modeling 10 minutes
- Explore CodeQL in GitHub 10 minutes
- Module assessment 10 minutes
- Summary 10 minutes
Skills you'll practise
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- Free, official and kept up to date by Microsoft.
- Free sandbox environments for many Azure exercises, no credit card needed.
- Counts toward Microsoft certification exams (AZ-900, AI-900, PL-300…).
- From Microsoft, a well-regarded name.
- Free digital badge you can add to LinkedIn.
- Completely free.
- Self-paced: start any time.
- A clear syllabus (10 parts) you can see before you start.
Disadvantages
- Mostly reading, not video.
- Focused on Microsoft products.
- Short (1 hour): an overview, not deep coverage.
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