As organizations bring their workflows into alignment with DevOps methodologies, the ‘pipeline’ becomes the backbone of their corporate and service delivery infrastructure. Without sufficient insight or security controls, a breach of an organization’s pipeline could result in catastrophic if not unrecoverable damage to operations, service delivery, and data security. My speech at the Kansas City ISSA in 2016 focused on how organizations can maximize the security of their pipelines and rest assured that the power of automation wouldn’t be turned against them.