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OIDC trust policies are the CI/CD attack surface nobody is watching

Short-lived OIDC federation from GitHub Actions to cloud IAM roles is the right pattern — and the trust policy condition is exactly where it goes wrong. What the abuse looks like in CloudTrail, why the obvious detection doesn’t fire, and what the first round of tuning has to fix.

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Image Mode RHEL Moves the Mutable Surface to /etc and /var

Bootc and rpm-ostree turn the root filesystem read-only and push state into a handful of writable paths. That quietly invalidates half your host integrity detections. Here is the new shape of the problem and what to instrument before the first ATO review notices.

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ClickFix Detection: Watching the Run Dialog Instead of the Payload

ClickFix turns the user into the execution primitive, which means your payload-side detections fire late or not at all. Here’s where the real telemetry lives, what the first week of tuning has to fix, and which environment assumptions decide whether the detection works at all.

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