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Where Security Gates Belong in Your CI/CD Pipeline
23.8 million secrets leaked on public GitHub in 2024 alone. The fix isn't more scanners — it's putting the right gate at the right stage and tuning out the noise.
Jul 11, 20267 min read
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Hardening a Java build pipeline in GitHub Actions
23,000+ repos leaked CI secrets when tj-actions/changed-files was hijacked in March 2025. Here's how to pin, OIDC, and sign a Java pipeline against that.
Jul 11, 20266 min read
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Writing Rego policies for Kubernetes admission control and CI gates
Open Policy Agent graduated CNCF on Jan 29, 2021 — yet most teams still ship Rego with no default-deny, turning a policy gate into a rubber stamp.
Jul 11, 20268 min read
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The Python Pickle Exploit: Why Unpickling Untrusted Data Runs Code
A Python pickle exploit works because unpickling can execute arbitrary code during deserialization. Here is how the class works, why it is unavoidable by design, and what to use instead.
Jul 11, 20266 min read
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WebAssembly WASI Security Model in 2025
A technical look at WASI Preview 2, the component model, and capability-based isolation for running untrusted code inside supply chain tooling.
Jul 11, 20265 min read
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Embedding security-by-design into DevSecOps risk management across the SDLC
NIST's SSDF turns 'shift left' into eleven concrete practices — but a framework on paper doesn't stop a bad merge. Here's how to make it enforceable.
Jul 10, 20267 min read
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Hardening CI/CD Against a Compromised Upstream Registry
The Sept 2025 npm attack hit packages with 2B weekly downloads in 2 hours. Pinning, lockfile checks, and mirrors would have stopped it cold.
Jul 9, 20265 min read
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The DevSecOps metrics that actually indicate program maturity
CISA's KEV directive now demands 3-day fixes for the riskiest bugs. Here's why raw finding counts are the wrong way to measure a DevSecOps program.
Jul 9, 20267 min read
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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.
Jul 9, 20267 min read
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