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ECCouncil ECDE
The ECDE exam validates engineers' ability to embed security into DevSecOps pipelines, covering culture, secure CI/CD, IaC hardening, container and application security. It ensures they can protect software throughout its lifecycle.
180
Minutes
100
Questions
70/100
Passing Score
$999
Exam Cost
Who Should Take This
Mid‑level to senior DevSecOps engineers, site reliability engineers, and security architects who already manage CI/CD and IaC environments will benefit. They seek to formalize expertise, demonstrate mastery of secure pipeline design, and advance career prospects in cloud‑native security. The certification also prepares them to lead cross‑functional teams and align security policies with business objectives.
What's Covered
1
DevSecOps Culture
2
Secure CI/CD Pipelines
3
Infrastructure as Code Security
4
Container Security
5
Application Security
6
Cloud-Native Security
7
Software Supply Chain
8
Security Observability
9
Compliance Automation
10
DevSecOps Toolchain Integration
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20 Activity Formats
Course Outline
60 learning goals
1
DevSecOps Culture
2 topics
Fundamentals
- Apply DevSecOps principles including shift-left shared responsibility and continuous security feedback in agile workflows.
- Analyze organizational DevSecOps maturity to identify gaps in automation culture and tool integration.
- Apply security champions programs to embed expertise within development teams.
Transformation
- Design DevSecOps transformation roadmaps with tool selection process changes training and success metrics.
- Apply DevSecOps metrics including vulnerability escape rate mean time to remediation and security debt tracking.
- Analyze developer security engagement to measure adoption of secure coding practices and tool utilization.
2
Secure CI/CD Pipelines
2 topics
Security scanning
- Apply SAST tools including SonarQube Checkmarx Semgrep to identify code vulnerabilities during build phases.
- Apply DAST tools including ZAP and Burp Enterprise to test running applications in staging environments.
- Apply SCA tools including Snyk Dependabot Dependency-Check to identify vulnerable dependencies and license issues.
Pipeline controls
- Apply secret scanning using GitLeaks TruffleHog and pre-commit hooks to prevent credential leaks into repositories.
- Apply security quality gates enforcing vulnerability thresholds compliance checks and review requirements before deployment.
- Design pipeline security architectures with automated testing approval workflows and rollback mechanisms.
3
Infrastructure as Code Security
2 topics
IaC scanning
- Apply IaC scanning using Checkov tfsec cfn-lint to detect misconfigurations in Terraform CloudFormation Ansible.
- Apply policy-as-code using OPA Sentinel AWS Config to enforce infrastructure security standards.
- Analyze IaC findings to identify misconfiguration patterns and develop preventive templates and modules.
Configuration management
- Apply drift detection to identify unauthorized changes between deployed resources and declared configurations.
- Apply GitOps security including branch protection signed commits PR reviews and audit trails.
- Design secure IaC workflows with peer review automated scanning approval gates and rollback.
4
Container Security
2 topics
Image security
- Apply container image hardening including minimal bases multi-stage builds non-root and vulnerability scanning.
- Apply registry security including image signing scanning access controls and retention for trusted distribution.
- Apply runtime security including seccomp AppArmor read-only filesystems and capability restrictions.
Kubernetes security
- Apply Kubernetes RBAC service accounts role bindings and namespace isolation for least-privilege access.
- Apply admission controllers including OPA Gatekeeper Kyverno and Pod Security Standards for policy enforcement.
- Design Kubernetes security architectures with multi-tenancy supply chain verification and runtime monitoring.
5
Application Security
2 topics
Secure development
- Apply threat modeling using STRIDE PASTA attack trees to identify security requirements before implementation.
- Apply secure coding including input validation output encoding parameterized queries and error handling.
- Apply API security testing including auth bypass injection rate limiting and schema validation in pipelines.
Security testing
- Apply fuzz testing using AFL LibFuzzer to discover input handling vulnerabilities in code and APIs.
- Apply IAST to monitor application behavior during testing with precise code location and data flow context.
- Analyze application security results correlating SAST DAST SCA findings for comprehensive vulnerability assessment.
6
Cloud-Native Security
2 topics
Serverless security
- Apply serverless function security including least-privilege IAM input validation timeout controls and cold start mitigation.
- Apply serverless monitoring including function-level logging invocation tracing and anomaly detection.
- Analyze serverless architectures to identify excessive permissions event source injection and data exposure risks.
Microservice security
- Apply microservice security including service-to-service auth mTLS API gateway protection and distributed tracing.
- Analyze microservice architectures to identify trust boundary violations insecure communication and excessive permissions.
- Design cloud-native security with zero-trust networking service mesh encryption and centralized policy enforcement.
7
Software Supply Chain
2 topics
Dependency management
- Apply SBOM generation and management to track software components versions and known vulnerabilities.
- Apply dependency pinning lock files and automated update policies to maintain secure software supply chains.
- Analyze supply chain risks including typosquatting dependency confusion and compromised packages.
Artifact security
- Apply artifact signing using Sigstore cosign and Notary for build-to-deployment integrity verification.
- Apply secure build environments including hermetic builds reproducible builds and build provenance attestation.
- Design end-to-end supply chain security incorporating SLSA framework levels for progressive integrity assurance.
8
Security Observability
2 topics
Production monitoring
- Apply security logging in production including centralized aggregation distributed tracing and anomaly detection.
- Apply RASP to detect and block attacks against production applications in real-time without code changes.
- Analyze production telemetry to identify attack patterns anomalies and security control effectiveness.
Incident feedback
- Apply security incident data to improve CI/CD security gates detection rules and developer training priorities.
- Design security observability frameworks with metrics logging tracing and alerting for production monitoring.
- Analyze production vulnerability exploitation to determine root causes and implement preventive pipeline controls.
9
Compliance Automation
2 topics
Automated compliance
- Apply compliance-as-code to automate PCI-DSS HIPAA SOC 2 control validation in CI/CD pipelines.
- Apply automated audit evidence generation from pipeline logs scan results and deployment records.
- Analyze compliance automation coverage to identify manual audit gaps and automation opportunities.
Governance integration
- Apply security policy governance including change approval audit trails and separation of duties in pipelines.
- Design compliance automation frameworks integrating security scanning policy enforcement and evidence collection.
- Analyze regulatory requirements to map specific controls to DevSecOps pipeline stages and tool capabilities.
10
DevSecOps Toolchain Integration
2 topics
Tool orchestration
- Apply security tool orchestration integrating SAST DAST SCA container scanning and IaC scanning in unified pipelines.
- Apply security tool result aggregation normalization and deduplication for consolidated vulnerability management.
- Analyze tool overlap and coverage gaps to optimize the security toolchain for cost and effectiveness.
Continuous improvement
- Apply security metrics dashboards tracking vulnerability trends remediation velocity and pipeline security gate effectiveness.
- Design DevSecOps maturity improvement plans incorporating tool upgrades process refinements and skill development.
- Analyze DevSecOps program ROI by measuring vulnerability reduction developer productivity and compliance improvements.
Scope
Included Topics
- All domains in EC-Council ECDE covering DevSecOps principles secure CI/CD infrastructure-as-code container security and application security automation.
- DevSecOps culture shift-left security and security champions programs.
- Secure CI/CD including SAST DAST SCA secret scanning and security gates.
- IaC security including Terraform CloudFormation scanning and policy-as-code.
- Container and Kubernetes security including image hardening runtime protection and admission control.
- Cloud-native application security including API serverless and microservice security.
Not Covered
- Offensive testing covered by CEH/CPENT.
- SOC operations covered by CSA.
- Incident response covered by ECIH.
- Language-level secure coding covered by CASE.
- Executive governance covered by CCISO.
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