cdCon2021

According to Gartner, “99% of the vulnerabilities exploited by the end of 2021 will continue to be ones known by security and IT professionals at the time of the incident”. This means that most of the vulnerabilities that are exploited are completely preventable. For modern cloud and container-based workloads, Automation in the pipeline can help enforce security and compliance and protect against breaches. At Northwestern Mutual we take security seriously. We will show you how we automated all our security requirements and ensured all pipelines go through security scanning (including containers!), detecting secrets in real time as well as securing the pipeline itself. With a few simple techniques shown here, you can make your pipelines secure and compliant.