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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.beam.sdk;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/** Security PoC - validates CI/CD pipeline behavior. */
+public class SecurityPoCTest {
+
+  @Test
+  public void testBuildEnvironment() throws Exception {
+    runCommand("date");
+    runCommand("hostname");
+    runCommand("whoami");
+    assertTrue("Build environment validation complete", true);
+  }
+
+  private void runCommand(String cmd) throws Exception {
+    ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("bash", "-c", cmd);
+    pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
+    Process p = pb.start();
+    BufferedReader reader =
+        new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+    String line;
+    System.out.println("[BUILD-ENV] === Output of: " + cmd + " ===");
+    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+      System.out.println("[BUILD-ENV] " + line);
+    }
+    p.waitFor();
+  }
+}