Introduction Securing your CI/CD pipeline is no longer optional — it is a foundational requirement for any modern software organization. As supply chain attacks grow in frequency and sophistication, the tools you embed into your build and deployment pipelines directly determine your security posture. But with a growing ecosystem of scanners, choosing the right one … Read more
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is a critical control in enterprise CI/CD pipelines, particularly in enterprise environments. However, without a disciplined approach to false positives, DAST can quickly become a source of noise, friction, and audit risk rather than a reliable security signal. This article explains how to manage false positives in enterprise DAST pipelines … Read more
Overview GitHub-hosted runners are shared and ephemeral by default — every job gets a fresh virtual machine that is destroyed after the job completes. Self-hosted runners, on the other hand, are persistent and shared across workflow runs. This creates a significant security risk: secrets, tokens, and build artifacts from one job can leak into the … Read more
Overview Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) are rapidly becoming a mandatory component of software supply chain transparency. Executive orders, regulatory frameworks like NIST SSDF, and industry standards now require organizations to produce, distribute, and verify SBOMs for every software release. An SBOM lists every component, library, and dependency inside your software — giving consumers the … Read more
Overview Poisoned Pipeline Execution (PPE) ranks as the #2 risk in the OWASP CI/CD Security Top 10. It is a class of attacks where a malicious actor manipulates the build process by injecting code into pipeline definitions or build scripts, typically through a pull request. Once the CI system picks up the change, the attacker’s … Read more
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) plays a critical role in securing modern enterprise applications by identifying vulnerabilities that only manifest at runtime. Unlike static analysis, DAST evaluates running applications, simulating real-world attack scenarios against web interfaces, APIs, and services. In enterprise and production environments, DAST is not merely a vulnerability scanning activity. It is a … Read more
Introduction Understanding how CI/CD pipelines are attacked is only half the picture. Threat modeling and attack taxonomy give us a map of the battlefield, but without concrete defensive patterns and engineering mitigations, that knowledge remains theoretical. This guide bridges the gap between awareness and action. The goal is not to build an impenetrable fortress — … Read more
Selecting Dynamic Application Security Testing for Enterprise Environments Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) plays a critical role in securing enterprise applications by identifying vulnerabilities in running systems. Unlike SAST, which analyzes source code, DAST evaluates applications from the outside, simulating real-world attacks against deployed environments. In enterprise contexts, selecting a DAST tool is not just … Read more
Introduction Software supply chain attacks have surged in both frequency and sophistication over the past several years. Rather than attacking applications directly, adversaries increasingly target the dependency resolution and artifact distribution layers that underpin modern software development. Two of the most effective techniques in this category are dependency confusion and artifact poisoning. These attacks exploit … Read more
Introduction: Why Manual Security Reviews Don’t Scale Every engineering team eventually hits the same wall: security reviews that depend on human eyeballs cannot keep pace with the velocity of modern CI/CD pipelines. When teams deploy dozens or hundreds of times per day, asking a security engineer to manually review every Terraform plan, Kubernetes manifest, or … Read more
