DevSecOps · crash course
Security built into the pipeline, not bolted on after. Go from why DevSecOps exists to signing artifacts and hardening AI features — the fast path that joins our security depth to the DevOps route. Every module ends with proof you can show in an interview.
8 modules · 48 topics · 5 graded labs
Four modules practise in real KnightVerse labs today. Graded labs for the rest are the next phase.
Included with Academy Pro; individual labs unlock with their track plan.
CHECKPOINT 01
Explain where security fits in a delivery pipeline and why shifting it left is cheaper than bolting it on.
Why DevSecOps exists
Shift-left vs gate-at-the-end
The pipeline as attack surface
Shared responsibility
Risk-based prioritisation
Security as code
Portfolio proof
Map an existing delivery pipeline and mark every point where a control should live.
CHECKPOINT 02
Threat-model a service before it ships and turn the findings into concrete pipeline controls.
STRIDE in practice
Data-flow diagrams
Trust boundaries
Abuse cases
Prioritising by impact
From threats to requirements
Portfolio proof
Threat-model a small web service and produce a ranked list of controls to add.
CHECKPOINT 03
Keep credentials out of code and cut every role down to what it actually needs.
Secret managers and vaults
Short-lived credentials & OIDC
Detecting committed secrets
Rotation and revocation
Least-privilege IAM
Blast-radius thinking
Portfolio proof
Move a service's secrets into a manager and tighten its cloud role to least privilege.
CHECKPOINT 04
Wire automated security testing into the pipeline so risky code and dependencies fail the build.
Static analysis (SAST)
Dynamic analysis (DAST)
Software composition analysis
Dependency & CVE scanning
Secret scanning gates
Triage and false positives
Portfolio proof
Add SAST, dependency and secret scanning to a pipeline and make a real finding block the merge.
CHECKPOINT 05
Build minimal, non-root images and stop a vulnerable container from reaching production.
Minimal base images
Non-root and read-only
Image scanning
Signing and provenance
Runtime constraints
Registry hygiene
Portfolio proof
Harden a Dockerfile to a non-root, scanned image and gate the push on a clean scan.
CHECKPOINT 06
Catch insecure infrastructure in the pull request, before it is ever provisioned.
IaC misconfiguration classes
Policy as code (OPA/Conftest)
Kubernetes admission control
Network policy & RBAC
Drift and guardrails
Secure defaults
Portfolio proof
Add policy-as-code to a Terraform/Kubernetes repo that rejects an insecure change automatically.
CHECKPOINT 07
Protect the pipeline itself — its identity, its artifacts, and everything it pulls in.
Pipeline identity & permissions
Artifact signing (Sigstore)
SBOMs and provenance
SLSA levels
Poisoned-dependency defence
Protecting build runners
Portfolio proof
Produce a signed artifact with an SBOM and verify its provenance before deploy.
CHECKPOINT 08
Apply DevSecOps to AI features — the risks a normal pipeline never checked for.
Prompt injection in automation
Untrusted tool authorization
Model & data supply chain
Output handling
Guardrails in CI
Red-teaming AI features
Portfolio proof
Add an adversarial test suite for an AI feature to the pipeline and block a regression.
What this is
This is an original KnightVerse crash course. It does not reproduce another provider’s lessons. Labs marked with a link run in our deterministic, simulated environments and are labelled as such; graded labs for the remaining modules are in development.
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