Remote development used to be the exception. Now it is how most of us work. You SSH into a build server, push to a cloud VM, flash firmware on a device sitting in a lab three time zones away, or spin up a container that lives on someone else's hardware. It is convenient, and it is also a much larger attack surface than a laptop that never leaves your desk. The code you are writing, the credentials that code uses, and the machines it touches are all reachable over a network, and a network is something other people can reach too. The good news is that securing a remote dev environment is mostly a matter of doing a handful of unglamorous things consistently. None of it is exotic. The problem is that under deadline pressure these are exactly the steps people skip, and attackers know it. The pa ...