Release Security

Definitions

1. The protections applied to the software release process, including build integrity, artifact signing, approval controls, provenance, and safe deployment practices. Release security is critical because compromise in the release pipeline can affect every downstream customer or environment.

   In plain English: Security for the process of building, approving, and shipping software releases.

   Example: "The incident response team treated the compromised CI runner as a release security emergency because signed production artifacts could no longer be trusted."

Related Terms

• Feature Flag
• Blue-Green Deployment
• GitOps
• Code Signing
• Post-Deploy Hook
• Pre-Deploy Hook
• Process Manager
• Runtime Environment