ci-cd
Safeguard articles tagged "ci-cd" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
205 articles
Automating container image vulnerability scans in GitHub Actions
A fail-the-build scanning pipeline is a few YAML lines away — but pin the Action wrong and you inherit its supply chain risk too.
DevSecOps on AWS: a reference architecture for CI/CD security gates
Amazon Inspector, CodePipeline manual approvals, and SLSA v1.0 (April 2023) give you the primitives — but nobody ships them wired together as one gated pipeline.
A reference architecture for SAST, SCA, and DAST gates that don't block developers
Log4Shell sat exploitable for 8 days before public disclosure in December 2021 — the canonical case for why security gates belong in CI, not just at release.
Shifting Infrastructure-as-Code security left across the SDLC
Terrascan went archived in November 2025 and tfsec folded into Trivy in 2024 — IaC scanning is consolidating fast, and where you run it matters as much as which tool you pick.
Wiring dependency and SAST scanning into your JavaScript CLI workflow
npm audit has shipped for free since npm 6 in 2018, yet most JavaScript teams still find out about vulnerable dependencies in a Slack alert, not a failed commit.
Rego for intermediates: combining rules with AND/OR and writing actionable error messages
Rego has no `&&` or `||` operators — AND is implicit, OR means writing the same rule twice, and most teams miss both until a policy silently passes.
A vendor-neutral framework for evaluating SAST tools
OWASP's Benchmark suite has run 2,740 fixed Java test cases since 2016, yet most SAST comparisons still amount to a vendor's self-reported false-positive number.
Guardrails for AI Coding Assistants in the SDLC
45% of AI-generated code samples in Veracode's 2025 test of 100+ LLMs contained OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities — here's how to gate it before merge.
Why semantic versioning and release channels matter for security tools
A backdoor sat in xz-utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 for weeks before Andres Freund caught it — stable distro channels, not luck, kept it out of most production systems.
Reducing Docker image build time without sacrificing security
Multi-stage builds and minimal base images can cut CI build times dramatically — and they're the same changes that shrink your CVE attack surface.
DevSecOps for Beginners: Building Security Into How You Ship
DevSecOps sounds like a buzzword, but the idea is refreshingly human: make security a shared, everyday part of building software rather than a gate at the end. Here is a friendly introduction with a first step to try today.
How to Set Up a Vulnerability Policy Gate
Define a written, version-controlled policy for which vulnerabilities block a release, enforce it consistently across CLI and CI, and manage time-boxed exceptions without an allowlist that lives forever.
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