Security Best Practices in CI/CD
Understand common security vulnerabilities in pipelines and best practices to mitigate risks throughout the development lifecycle.
Why CI/CD Security Matters
In modern software development, CI/CD pipelines are crucial. They automate building, testing, and deploying your code.
But with great power comes great responsibility! Securing these pipelines is vital to protect your code, data, and infrastructure from malicious attacks or accidental vulnerabilities.
Identify Pipeline Vulnerabilities
Before we secure, we need to understand what we're protecting against. CI/CD pipelines can be vulnerable to several types of attacks:
- Compromised Credentials: Stolen API keys or tokens.
- Malicious Dependencies: Using libraries with known security flaws.
- Insecure Configurations: Misconfigured access controls or build steps.
- Supply Chain Attacks: Tampering with the build process itself.
All lessons in this course
- Security Best Practices in CI/CD
- Secret Management with GitHub
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dependency and Supply Chain Security (SCA)