Training Guide
What Certifications make sense?
These certifications make sense for DevSecOps:
Development: I don't think that you need a certification for a programming language or as a software engineer. It helps though to know what a fullstack developer is doing on a daily basis.
Security: In IT Sec companies want to see that you have a certification. It is absolutely necessary to prove your knowledge on the job market. I specify in Web Applicaton Testing and opted for the WEB-300 course and a certification attempt. If you need a broader knowledge you should consider the Comptia Security+ and CISSP certifications. For Penetration testing (not only web) look for offers from Offensive Security (for instance PEN-200) or EC-Council's courses and certifications. Offensive Security works with kali linux and EC-Council with parrotOS.
Comptia Security + (basic / broad security and network knowledge)
CISSP (basic / broad security and methodology knowledge)
Offensive Security PEN-200 (basic pentesting knowledge, kali linux)
EC-Council CEH (advanced pentesting knowledge, parrotOS)
Offensive Security WEB-300 (advanced web application pentesting knowledge)
Operations:
All of these certification are in demand. They all specify in one tool.
Docker Certified Associates (DCA) by docker.com
Ansible Certification by Red Hat
Certified Jenkins Engineer
AWS DevOps Certification by amazon cloud solutions
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
DevSecOps:
I would recommend you to get certified if you quickly need hands-on experience and confidence. If not, you should at least learn one CD/CI tool and how to create build pipelines and integrate build steps with secruity tools.
Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) from Professional DevSecOps: it is an awesome guided hands-on and complete training with remote assistance. You level up quickly.
Pentesters Academy DevSecOps training: content is the same as Professionnal DevSecOps, I doubt they have the same infrastructure for great hands-on training, but maybe I am wrong.
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