Swapps | Infrastructure & Cybersecurity Resources

Cybersecurity

Security as a first-class engineering concern — from hardening CI/CD pipelines and the software supply chain to Zero Trust access, secrets management, and securing containerized workloads. Practical, defense-in-depth guidance for protecting the systems you build and operate.

Hardening CI/CD Pipelines and the Software Supply Chain

Lock down GitHub Actions and your build pipeline: pin actions to SHAs, scope tokens to least privilege, and keep secrets out of logs.

14 min read

CI/CDSupply ChainGitHub Actions

Zero Trust Access: Replacing the VPN and Closing Down SSH

Move from a flat, perimeter-based network to identity-aware access — closing public SSH and putting every internal service behind authenticated, audited policy.

12 min read

Zero TrustAccess ControlSSH

Secrets Management: Centralization, Encryption, and Rotation

Get secrets out of .env files and git history into a managed, encrypted, auditable system — and make rotation routine rather than an emergency.

11 min read

SecretsEncryptionCompliance

Container and Kubernetes Security Essentials

Practical defenses for containerized workloads: scan images, drop privileges, restrict pod-to-pod traffic, and scope RBAC to least privilege.

13 min read

KubernetesContainersHardening