Securing CI/CD Pipelines

Summary

CI/CD pipelines have broad access to build, test, and deploy code — a compromised pipeline can inject malicious code directly into production, making pipeline security a high-value attacker target.

• 1Audit a sample CI/CD pipeline configuration for hardcoded secrets or overly broad permissions.
• 2Learn why supply chain attacks (compromising a build pipeline) are an increasingly common real threat.
• 3Understand secrets management (not hardcoding credentials in pipeline configs) as a core defense.