Lessons learned from the CircleCI secrets breach

Software supply chain security has become a top priority for organizations, but new threats continue to surface that security teams need to be aware of. A harsh reality hit the industry this new year when CircleCI, a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and orchestration platform revealed on January 4 that it had discovered a security incident. 

The company later shared that assailants compromised a development system used by a remote CircleCI engineer. The threat actors then used this access …

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