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Shift-Left Security Scanning

Prevent security problems at the commit, not in prod. The scanner toolchain for shift-left DevSecOps: secrets (Gitleaks), infrastructure-as-code (Checkov), code / SAST (Semgrep), and vulnerabilities (Nuclei & dependency scanning) — plus the fidelity discipline (tuning, triage, gating) that makes the signal trustworthy. For engineers, DevOps, and security. The deep companion to CI/CD Best Practices.

"Secrets, IaC, code, and dependency scans run at every PR, tuned so the gate blocks real high/critical findings — and nobody ignores the alerts"

6 Interactive Sessions

Short, interactive sessions — watch it work, steer it, then build it yourself. Go deeper anytime with the full code walkthrough.

  1. 1

    Why shift-left scanning — catch it at commit, not in prod

    Automated scanners catch whole classes of security problems — leaked secrets, misconfigured infrastructure, insecure code, known vulnerabilities — the moment code is written, where fixing them is cheapest.

  2. 2

    Secrets scanning — catch the key before it's ever committed

    A secret scanner spots hardcoded credentials the moment you write them — and the leaked ones you already committed — so you can block the push and rotate before anyone else does.

  3. 3

    IaC & config scanning — catch the misconfig at the PR, not after it's live

    Infrastructure is defined in code now — and code can be misconfigured. An IaC scanner runs policy-as-code against your Terraform, Kubernetes, and Dockerfiles at the pull request, so bad infra never gets provisioned.

  4. 4

    Code scanning / SAST — catch the insecure pattern before it runs

    Static application security testing reads your source code — without running it — for whole classes of insecure patterns like injection and unsafe crypto, and flags them on the pull request at the exact line.

  5. 5

    Vulnerability scanning — do we ship known-vulnerable components, and is the running thing exposed?

    Two complementary scans catch known vulnerabilities: dependency/SCA + image scanning check the artifact for vulnerable components, while Nuclei runs template-based active checks against the running target.

  6. 6

    Fidelity: tuning & wiring it into the pipeline

    A scanner is only worth what people act on: high fidelity — signal you can trust — plus putting each scan where it belongs turns four scanner families into real prevention.

Production patterns you'll master

Secret ScanningIaC ScanningSASTDependency & Vulnerability ScanningScan Fidelity & TuningPipeline Gating

Synthetic data included

  • Secret-scan CI job (YAML)
  • IaC-scan findings (JSON)
  • A SAST rule (YAML)
  • Scanner wiring & gating reference

What you walk away with

Shareable portfolio

A public URL showing your module timeline, patterns mastered, and completion status.

All the code

Download everything as a ZIP — pipelines, guardrails, deployment configs. Yours forever.

Module walkthrough

Each module documented with deliverables and the production pattern you implemented.

Ready to build your shift-left security scanning?

First course free. $20 per course after that.