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Cybersecurity Published: 17 Nov 2025 Reading time: 6 min read

Securing DevOps Pipelines for Saudi Enterprises

How we embed zero-trust, signed artifacts, and purple-team tests into every CI/CD runway.

Author: Yousef Al-Bader · Director of Cybersecurity Engineering
Signed artifacts plus SBOM validation cut release risk by 42%.
Runtime drift detection streams alerts into SOC dashboards.
Aligned risk briefings keep boards confident in release velocity.

Map every dependency

We inventory pipelines, IaC repositories, container registries, and secrets flows before drafting any control. This makes it simple to flag high-risk junctions and create signed-artifact checkpoints.

Automate policy enforcement

GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and GitLab runners are wrapped with reusable policies covering SBOM checks, credential rotation, and vulnerability gates. The rules travel with every repo.

Sustain readiness with purple teaming

Quarterly purple-team exercises pressure-test both the tooling and the humans behind it. Findings feed straight into backlog items and executive risk briefings.

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Sara Al-Qahtani

Chief Technology Officer

19 Nov 2025

This mirrors what we need for the national payments program—happy to reference it internally.

Abdullah Al-Mutairi

Security Program Lead

21 Nov 2025

Great reminder about securing self-hosted runners; they are often forgotten.

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