# Proactive Defense: Hardening Code Pipelines and CI/CD Infrastructure

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- Publisher: Google Threat Intelligence
- Author credit: Mandiant
- Category: Cyber
- Original publication time: 2026-09-24T14:00:00Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-01T20:28:45Z
- Original source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/hardening-code-pipelines-and-ci-cd-infrastructure/
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-00b0cb7d2267d26c02f1

## The brief

Mandiant’s new software supply-chain guidance covers developer workstations, repositories and build infrastructure as connected security boundaries. It describes attacks involving trusted tools, stolen development credentials and manipulated CI/CD workflows. Recommended controls include approved IDE extensions, short-lived credentials, protected branches, pinned dependencies and isolated development environments, with human review of AI-generated code and continuous verification across the delivery process.

AI-assisted NexusTechWire summary, checked against the linked source on 2026-10-01T20:26:11.940Z. Not independent reporting.

Read the full original: [Google Threat Intelligence](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/hardening-code-pipelines-and-ci-cd-infrastructure/)

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