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Security and Compliance in Azure Pipelines
Ensure secure, compliant Azure Pipelines with automated checks and real-time alerts. This course will teach you how to enforce security and compliance through policy validation, secret scanning, SAST, and remediation in Azure Pipelines workflows.
What you'll learn
Many teams struggle to integrate security and compliance into their Azure Pipelines workflows, risking vulnerabilities, non-compliant deployments, and credential leaks. In this course, Security and Compliance in Azure Pipelines, you’ll gain the ability to enforce robust security and compliance practices throughout the CI/CD lifecycle.
First, you’ll explore integrating PSRule and secret-scanning tools like GitLeaks to validate infrastructure-as-code and prevent credential exposure. Next, you’ll discover how to add Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and implement pre-deployment Azure Policy gates to block non-compliant releases. Finally, you’ll learn how to automate remediation of non-compliant resources and configure real-time compliance reporting and alerts.
When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Azure Pipelines security and compliance needed to build secure, audit-ready workflows that align with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
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About the author
James Bannan is a published author and experienced public speaker based in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Microsoft specialist, with a particular focus on Azure infrastructure architecture, development, and automation.