DevSecOps Guardrails - Series Overview

Running CDK in production, one thing becomes clear: a passing cdk synth is not the same as a safe deploy. There are four categories of risk that a standard CI/CD pipeline leaves unchecked: IaC policy violations, CloudFormation template errors, application code quality issues, and vulnerable dependencies. Each one has a tool that catches it at build time - and together they form a pipeline where “it deployed” also means “it deployed safely.” ...

September 18, 2025 · 2 min · 290 words