Preventing fallout from your CI/CD platform being hacked

This article warns that CI/CD platforms are frequent high-value targets because they hold deployment secrets; it cites the January 2023 CircleCI breach where tokens and keys were exfiltrated and then provides practical mitigations—restrict IAM roles by IP, apply least-privilege credentials, separate environments into multiple accounts, enforce SSO/MFA, and rotate deployment tokens immediately after suspected compromise.