Protecting CI/CD Pipelines: Growing Threats and the Keys to Securing Them

Enterprises are increasingly implementing DevOps and CI/CD pipelines to dramatically accelerate the software development life cycle (SDLC), bringing new products online more rapidly, more efficiently and with less expense. But the dramatic increase in speed and automation from the combined practices of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) also introduces new security threats, such as malicious source code tampering, exposed secrets and 3rd party vulnerabilities that must be addressed at the same speed. CISOs and other stakeholders need to ensure that their applications are as secure during development as they are when they go into production.