One of the main contributors to the weak security posture of development environments is the complexity and knowledge gap created by the number of tools and services taking part in this process. With more than a hundred continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools to choose from and hundreds of plugins and services connected to those tools, no wonder security teams have a hard time grasping the amount of information and security requirements of these environments.
It is not rare to see a CI/CD pipeline that includes 10 to 20 different tools and services; some of these are cloud-based, others open-source tools with various plugins installed on them. It is impossible to keep track of this complexity manually, and it often results in an exposure of your environment, code, secrets, and network through those tools and plugins’ vulnerabilities.