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Secure the Ground Before You Build the Pipeline — Linux Hardening for DevOps Engineers
Most DevOps engineers spend serious effort on CI/CD security controls and almost none on the Linux hosts those pipelines run on. If the ground is soft, the pipeline controls do not hold. Here is what host hardening actually looks like — and how it reinforces everything above it.
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