Tag: DevSecOps

  • Security as a Development Constraint, Not a Review Gate

    Security as a Development Constraint, Not a Review Gate

    A compromised npm maintainer account pushed malicious versions of Axios, one of the most widely used JavaScript libraries, to the registry. The attack, which hit last month, bypassed GitHub Actions entirely. The attacker published directly via the npm CLI with stolen credentials. A hidden dependency deployed a remote access trojan. For three hours, every npm install that…

  • DevOps Theater: When the Culture Never Actually Changed

    DevOps Theater: When the Culture Never Actually Changed

    A couple of years ago, I was brought in to assess the delivery practices of a mid-size financial services company. They had all the artifacts of a modern engineering organization: a CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure as code templates, a dedicated SRE team, Slack channels named after microservices. The CTO proudly told me they had “completed their…