CI/CD Pipeline Security Assessment: Securing the Software Delivery Pathway for Australian Enterprises

CI/CD pipelines automate the path from code to production — making them high-value targets. If an attacker compromises the pipeline, they can inject malicious code that deploys directly to production with legitimate credentials. Security assessment covers: source code repository access controls, build environment isolation, secret management in pipeline variables, dependency integrity verification, artifact signing and verification, deployment credential scope, pipeline configuration as code (can unauthorised users modify pipeline definitions?), and audit logging of pipeline activities.