CI/CD Security

CI/CD security encompasses both securing the CI/CD pipeline itself and integrating security testing into the pipeline's automated workflows. As pipelines have become central to software delivery, they've also become high-value targets — compromising a CI/CD system can inject malicious code into every deployment. At the same time, pipelines offer the ideal integration point for automated security testing.

Pipeline security concerns include: protecting secrets and credentials used in builds, securing pipeline configurations from unauthorized changes, validating build artifacts and container images, implementing least-privilege access for pipeline service accounts, and ensuring pipeline dependencies are free from supply chain attacks. Security testing integration means running SAST, DAST, SCA, and penetration tests as pipeline stages with quality gates that prevent vulnerable code from deploying.

How APVISO helps with this: APVISO integrates into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) to add penetration testing as an automated pipeline stage. Trigger a full AI-powered security pentest on every deployment to staging, and configure quality gates to block releases with critical vulnerabilities.