The Shadow Factory: Why Your CI/CD Sprawl is About to Move Faster Than You Can Think
The article warns that unchecked CI/CD sprawl— orphaned pipelines, hard‑coded secrets, and permissive runners— creates a hidden attack surface, and that AI‑driven agents will amplify the problem. It recommends a governance layer with real‑time inventory, policy‑as‑code, and AI guardrails to bring the software factory under the same security rigor as production.






