Investigate and manage CI/CD pipeline assets - Administrator Guide - Cortex Cloud Posture Management - Cortex CLOUD

Cortex Cloud Application Security

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Cortex Cloud Posture Management
Cortex Cloud Application Security > Cortex CLOUD
Creation date
2025-01-22
Last date published
2026-05-31
Category
Administrator Guide

The CI/CD pipeline inventory provides multiple ways to investigate a pipeline asset, from quick agentic queries in the main table to deep-dive configuration analysis in the side panel.

Select a CI/CD pipeline row in the table to open its side panel. This provides a consolidated workspace for investigating pipeline definitions and security posture without navigating away from the asset inventory. The health profile represents the current security state of the pipeline configuration.

Ask the AppSec agentic assistant

From the CI/CD Pipelines table, right-click a pipeline rowOpen in Agentic AssistantApplication Security from the agents menu. You can then query pipeline-specific insights.

You can also access the agent in the side panel by clicking the Ask AI icon.

Explore the pipeline context and lineage

Navigate through the following tabs in the side panel to review the pipeline context and lineage. This helps prioritize remediation efforts based on application criticality and assess the potential production impact of misconfigurations:

  • Overview tab: Displays key pipeline properties, including highlights allowing you to prioritize pipelines including Deployed to runtime, indicating it actively deploys workloads to production, Internet Exposed, indicating the deployed workloads produced by the pipeline are publicly reachable from the internet, Public, indicating the pipeline or its parent repository has public visibility, and Deprecated, indicating the pipeline or associated components are deprecated. In addition, highlights the severity breakdown of CI/CD configuration risk issues associated with the pipeline

    • Deployed to runtime, indicating it actively deploys workloads to production

    • Internet Exposed, indicating the deployed workloads produced by the pipeline are publicly reachable from the internet

    • Public, indicating the pipeline or its parent repository has public visibility

    • Deprecated, indicating the pipeline or associated components are deprecated

    • Issue severity, the severity breakdown of CI/CD configuration risk issues associated with the pipeline

  • Applications tab: Lists the business applications associated with the CI/CD pipeline (inherited from the parent repository), including business criticality ratings and risk scores

  • Instances tab: Displays the CI/CD instances associated with the pipeline. Select an instance to view its details without navigating away

  • Code to Cloud tab: Displays the Code to cloud relationship graph, visualizing the lineage from the CI/CD pipeline through the parent repository to deployed container images, VM images, and cloud resources

    Note

    This requires active CI/CD integrations and successful build log analysis. Pipelines without successful build log analysis display only the repository and pipeline nodes

Investigate and remediate issues

You can investigate specific security findings directly from the asset side panel. From the Overview tab, you can select specific issues or cases associated with the pipeline.

Selecting an issue opens a dedicated issue side card directly over the inventory view. This allows you to review detailed information, including the detection rule, severity level, OWASP CI/CD Top 10 category mapping, and evidence, and apply remediation guidance without losing your place in the asset inventory.

Note

Navigate to the dedicated Application SecurityIssuesCI/CD Risks page to manage the remediation lifecycle at scale through bulk status updates, team assignments, and SLA tracking for compliance monitoring.

Execute asset actions

After reviewing the pipeline health, you can perform the following operations:

  • View asset data: Available from either the side panel Actions menu or by right-clicking the resource in the main table. Click View asset data to view raw pipeline data in JSON (default) or tree view formats to assist with custom integrations, XQL queries, or API operations

Limitations

Limitation

Description

CI/CD integration required

CI/CD pipeline assets are only created through active CI/CD integrations. Repositories without connected CI/CD integrations do not generate CI/CD pipeline assets

Provider support scope

CI/CD pipeline discovery is limited to supported providers: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Argo CD, AWS CodeBuild, TeamCity, and Travis CI

Code to cloud mapping dependency

The code to cloud graph requires successful build log analysis to trace the full lineage from the pipeline to deployed runtime assets

Build activity data freshness

Build activity metadata (Last job execution, Job Activity) is updated during periodic scans and CI/CD integration synchronization

Build log secret scanning scope

Build log scanning detects secrets printed during pipeline execution. Not all CI/CD providers support build log ingestion

CI/CD configuration scan policy restrictions

The CI/CD configuration scan policy type supports only the periodic scan trigger