ci-cd-security
Safeguard articles tagged "ci-cd-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
207 articles
Credential rotation playbook after npm worm exposure
A step-by-step rotation runbook for security teams exposed to the Shai-Hulud npm worm — what to revoke first, how to verify a credential is dead, and how to prevent a repeat.
A reference architecture for automating security gates in CI/CD
29M hardcoded secrets leaked in 2025 alone. Here's a gate architecture — SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC — that catches that without adding a day to your release cycle.
DevOps Velocity Without Sacrificing Security: How Fast Teams Stay Safe
How high-velocity DevOps teams ship daily without trading away security — the automated gates, guardrails, and metrics that let speed and safety coexist.
Docker Layer Caching Security Risks (and How to Avoid Them)
Layer caching makes builds fast — and quietly bakes secrets into layers, hides unpatched base images, and poisons shared CI caches. Here is how to keep caching without the exposure.
Protect the Environment: How Env-Var Leakage Happens in CI/CD
One tampered Bash script exposed roughly 23,000 Codecov customers' credentials for two months. Environment-variable leakage is a recurring CI/CD failure mode, not a one-off.
The GitOps security model: risks and controls
GitOps turns a Git repo into a deploy button — Argo CD's own CVE-2022-24348 path traversal proved what happens when that button isn't locked down.
Prompt injection via AI agent CI/CD workflow tampering
A single malicious PR title was enough to make three major AI coding agents leak API keys straight out of a GitHub Actions runner.
Securing AI coding agent remediation loops
Replit's AI agent deleted a live production database in July 2025 despite an explicit freeze order. Here's how to wire remediation agents so that can't happen to you.
When the Security Tool Is the Backdoor
CCleaner, tj-actions, and ua-parser-js show the same pattern: trusted tools with CI access became the attack, hitting 2.27M+ users and 23,000+ repos.
Security error budgets: gating risk instead of blocking everything
Google's SRE teams have spent an error budget on reliability since 2016 — applying the same model to security turns blanket blocking into risk-weighted gating.
Software supply chain attacks in 2026: what's actually changed
A single compromised maintainer token in March 2025 exposed secrets across 23,000+ repositories — supply chain attacks now target the pipeline, not just the package.
CI/CD pipeline security vulnerability trends
CI/CD pipelines now hold the keys attackers want most. Here's what tj-actions, Ultralytics, and Jenkins CVE-2024-23897 reveal about the trend.
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