CI/CD Security Tools — The Complete Guide for Engineering Teams

Short summary

A practical guide to CI/CD security tooling covering five categories: Software Composition Analysis, SAST, secret scanning, container scanning, and IaC scanning. It recommends a rollout order starting with SCA and secret scanning, then adding SAST, container, and IaC scanning as pipelines mature. Each category includes free and paid tool options, recommended pipeline stages, and guidance on blocking versus warning rules to avoid alert fatigue.

• •Five CI/CD security tool categories: SCA, SAST, secret scanning, container scanning, IaC scanning — each catches different vulnerability types
• •Recommended rollout order: start with SCA and secret scanning (fast, low-noise), then add SAST, container scanning, and IaC scanning
• •Block only critical issues initially; warn on existing issues while creating cleanup plans to avoid pipeline slowdown and alert fatigue

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