Pipeline Security and Compliance Questions

Integrate security and compliance into continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines without creating blocking bottlenecks. Topics include static analysis of source code, dynamic application scanning, container image vulnerability scanning, software composition analysis, secrets detection, generation of software bill of materials, policy as code and enforcement, artifact signing and provenance, balancing gating versus advisory scans, prioritizing remediation, minimizing false positives, and automating compliance reporting and ticketing. Interviewers evaluate an applicant's ability to design efficient pipeline scanning strategies, performance trade offs, and remediation workflows.