The cybersecurity landscape is seeing a surge in adversaries exploiting vulnerable CI/CD pipelines, making it one of the stealthiest and most potent attack vectors in modern enterprise environments. These pipelines, designed for rapid development and deployment, often have highly privileged access to source code, secrets, containers, and infrastructure—making them a prime target for lateral movement and supply chain compromise. Advanced threat actors are inserting backdoors into build processes, poisoning artifacts, or compromising plugin repositories, all while remaining under the radar due to poor visibility in DevOps tooling. One misconfigured YAML file or a leaky GitHub secret is enough to trigger a full-blown breach that spreads across your cloud and on-prem environments. Organizations must treat their CI/CD pipeline as production—harden it, monitor it, and segment it. This means enabling multi-factor authentication, rotating secrets, scanning builds for tampering, and restricting third-party integrations with strict policies. As attackers adapt to hit where it hurts most—in automation—Cyber Protection Academy urges defenders to re-evaluate their pipelines not just for speed but for survivability in a threat-rich future.