8 CI/CD best practices: Secure your software development pipeline

Don't neutralize CI/CD business gains by failing to account for risk. Here are best practices to ensure your software development pipeline is secure.

As the adoption of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) approaches to software development keeps snowballing, the benefits are stacking up for many organizations. CI/CD helps organizations deploy software more quickly and more often, making code changes faster in response to changing business conditions.

But the automation and complexity of CI/CD pipelines and processes can introduce significant security risks …

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