Modern CI/CD pipelines are essential for rapid and reliable software delivery. But as pipelines automate more stages of the development lifecycle—from code validation to production deployment—they have also become a major target for exploitation.
Traditional pipelines often operate on broad trust: long-lived credentials, shared secrets, unverified execution environments, and permissive access controls. These assumptions introduce significant risks in today’s cloud-native infrastructure, where build agents may be ephemeral, distributed across regions, and provisioned dynamically.
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