practical-devsecops.comReviews of practical-devsecops.com

- Won’t make you an expert, but gives a very good base - Believe them when they say Practical, be ready to actually DO stuff by yourself. - Short curse, concise, very informative - Teaches how to transform a regular CI/CD pipeline into a production-ready DevSecOps* pipeline - Good for beginners in DevOps, but at least you have some IT background - They mention commercial products, but the course is focused on open-source tools.

For my experience in the CDP course, the course materials were extremely relevant for anyone tasked with building a foundational DevSecOps flow, covering a wide range of topics the video portal broke the material up well and provided a good gauge of progression. The lab environment is probably one of the most convenient I've experienced in any class or personal training. Usually for this type of environment in other trainings, I'd spend the first half of a day downloading all the VMs or spinning up a Vagrant environment. With the Practical DevSecOps online lab environment, you basically have 1 click and your environment is good-to-go in about 1-5 minutes. It makes it extremely useful to get rolling without the normal pain of setting up a lab using piecemeal VM images. From the support side of things, I had a good experience. Staff are usually friendly and responsive, though I think the timeliness depends on your time-zone. Most of the staff is shifted time zones it seemed, so when I worked on labs (nighttime CST) responses were pretty quick. If you're doing it during the daytime, your mileage may vary. The certification itself was an interesting experience, with the 12 hour, hands-on exam from which you produce a detailed report. Honestly, I was somewhat familiar with the concepts going in, so I expected to breeze through the certification, especially being open notes. I was mistaken, in an extremely good way. The certification test isn't merely a repetition of the concepts taught, it actually takes the concepts and makes you think critically about what you learned to accomplish the tasks. It ended up taking me most of the 12 hours and at the end I was exhausted but gratified. Overall, the actual certification test was one of the best I've taken, with the hands-on piece really driving knowledge of the materials. I had grown mostly disillusioned with lengthy multiple choice exams (some of them even open book) and hands-on exams that were honestly pure regurgitation exercises. Responses on my passing attempt were promptly within the window the company said they would provide it. Overall, I would (and have) highly recommend this training for anyone starting down a DevSecOps journey, either from a security professional or a security minded developer wanting to champion DevSecOps in their organization. Being in a hiring position as well, I'll know when I see that someone has attained the cert in this class, I can trust that they are someone with the technical skills, knowledge, and, probably more importantly, motivation to push our organization up the DevSecOps maturity model. Thanks, Imran and team, for the wonderful class!

Really amazing training with practical cases and very active slack and email support! The CDP course is more oriented for security engineers that want to be familiar with DevOps and automation. Maybe some additional security subjects/course would be useful for people already comfortable with DevOps.

Great course with hands-on labs. Very useful practical experience for everyone who interested in DevSecOps. Also great teaching team with outstanding support! Absolutely advice this course to anyone who interested in DevSecOps. Especially thanks to Imran , Yuga and Raj for this great experience , useful knowledge , interesting course content and outstanding support !

I thoroughly enjoyed the course. The course covers both the theory behind building software securely as well as the practical steps one can take for finding security issues in the SDLC. If you have a security background - this will teach you more about the SDLC as well as using GitLab and automating security checks in a pipeline. If you are already familiar with devops and software development this course will add the sec to your devops.

Practical DevSecOps offers a real life scenario situation where you need to securise the pipeline of an application. It's a hands-on course where you will learn many cool features not only by listening but by doing it as well. The staff are very open and always availabe to help you! It was excellent.

I really enjoyed my time with the Practical DevSecOps Team, the support we get on slack is amazing, they're always there to any doubt you may have. I recommend CDP to someone with some theorical knowledge of the DevSecOps world since the cert is highly practical. Everything learned here I use on my company on a day-to-day basis, so I think it's worth every dime 💛

This being my first learning activity for 2021, was totally an amazing learning experience with the practical devsecops team. Training given was precise with a lot of practical examples and ample lab exercises, different tools were thought along with extra mile activities. The 12 hr exam along with the report writing was intense. This course is fantastic, worth my time spent and recommend it