Is Continuous Deployment Too Risky? Security Concerns and Mitigations

Adopting Continuous Deployment, an extreme form of software delivery automation, can drastically speed up software delivery, but it also introduces critical security challenges. Some of the most severe, global-scale security breaches of recent years (Solarwinds and Kaseya are just two examples) were related to breaches in software delivery infrastructure. Continuous deployment has the potential to make things worse. With code changes pushed automatically to production, the margin for error narrows – and the impact of a security flaw can scale instantly. These problems raise key security…

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