Is Continuous Deployment Too Risky? Security Concerns and Mitigations
Adopting Continuous Deployment, an extreme form of software delivery automation, can drastically speed up software delivery, but it also introduces critical security challenges. Some of the most severe, global-scale security breaches of recent years (Solarwinds and Kaseya are just two examples) were related to breaches in software delivery infrastructure. Continuous deployment has the potential to make things worse.