CI/CD Risk Battlecards
Recall practical responses to common objections about CI/CD security controls.
Credential hygiene "It is only in CI, not production." Someone wants to store broad deploy credentials in a workflow that many contributors can trigger. Your line CI is a production control plane. A credential that can deploy from CI can change what customers run, so it needs production-grade scope, masking, and audit. Do not argue whether the people are trustworthy. Design for what happens when automation is abused. It reframes CI/CD as a privileged system and points to concrete controls. Artifact integrity Tag vs. digest: which proves what production will run? Tags help humans. Digests and attestations help deployment policy.…
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