This guide outlines a defense-in-depth approach to securing GitLab across both self-hosted and cloud environments, starting with infrastructure hardening such as limiting exposed ports, enforcing HTTPS, and applying regular patches. It stresses strong identity controls with mandatory MFA, strict RBAC enforcement, and careful use of scoped, short-lived tokens. For CI/CD, it recommends using job tokens instead of personal credentials, enforcing protected branches and approvals, isolating jobs, and securing runners to prevent abuse. It also emphasizes embedding security directly into pipelines through automated scanning (SAST, DAST, dependency, and container scans) and implementing strong secrets management with masking, vault integrations, and detection tools. The key takeaway is that GitLab

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