🔐 devsecops-playbook

Real-world DevSecOps patterns, checklists, and templates from financial-domain AWS engagements — by @ars-devsecops

📂 Contents

Folder	What's Inside
iam-policies/	IAM hardening baseline, MFA enforcement, least-privilege guidelines
vapt/	VAPT findings tracker template, AWS security checklist
checklists/	Secure CI/CD checklist, deployment readiness checklist
secure-cicd/	Secure pipeline patterns and secret management guides

🏆 Real Results

These patterns are based on work that achieved:

• ✅ 100% VAPT findings remediated within SLA — Godrej Housing Finance
• ✅ 10+ AWS accounts hardened with least-privilege IAM and audit baselines
• ✅ Zero hardcoded credentials across all pipelines via Secrets Manager
• ✅ 30% reduction in deployment failures through structured RCA process

🔐 Core Security Principles

1. Never trust, always verify  — Zero-trust IAM, MFA everywhere
2. Shift security left         — Scan at build, not after deploy
3. Least privilege             — Minimum permissions, always scoped
4. Immutable audit trail       — Every action logged, tamper-proof
5. Secrets never in code       — Secrets Manager, not .env files

🚀 Quick Start

# Clone the playbook
git clone https://github.com/ars-devsecops/devsecops-playbook

# Start with the secure CI/CD checklist
cat checklists/secure-cicd-checklist.md

# Use the VAPT template for your next assessment
cp vapt/vapt-findings-template.md vapt/client-assessment-$(date +%Y%m%d).md

🤝 Author

Amol Shinde · AWS Certified Security Specialist · DevSecOps Engineer