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CuratedIntermediate$20

Shift-Left Security Scanning

Prevent security problems at the commit, not in prod: secrets (Gitleaks), IaC (Checkov), code/SAST (Semgrep), and vulnerabilities (Nuclei & dependencies) — plus the fidelity to make the signal trustworthy. For engineers, DevOps, and security.

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What you walk away with

  • A shareable portfolio URL with your project walkthrough
  • Module-by-module timeline of everything you built
  • All the code — pipelines, guardrails, deployment configs
  • Production patterns documented on your profile
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The DevSecOps scanner deep-dive of the Alset × TheDex line, and the deep companion to CI/CD Best Practices. Learn the four families of shift-left scanners and how to run them where fixes are cheapest: secret scanning (Gitleaks — patterns + entropy, pre-commit + CI + history, rotate-don't-delete), IaC/config scanning (Checkov — policy-as-code before provisioning), code/SAST (Semgrep — pattern-based static analysis and its honest limits), and vulnerability scanning (dependency/SCA + container-image scanning, and Nuclei's template-based active scanning of running targets). The capstone is fidelity: escaping the false-positive death spiral through tuning, baselining, scoped suppressions, and severity-by-reachability triage, then wiring the scans across pre-commit → PR/CI → pre-prod → continuous with sane gating and centralized findings.

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