Cloud Development Environments (CDE) like Gitpod offer productivity and security benefits by standardizing development environments, allowing developers to work efficiently without compromising on security. Gitpod integrates with Single Sign-On (SSO), Source Control Management (SCM), and OpenID Connect (OIDC) to create a "defense in depth" strategy, ensuring that only authorized users can access the necessary resources at the right times. By leveraging existing identity and access management systems, Gitpod supports seamless onboarding and offboarding of developers and restricts repository access based on user permissions. OIDC allows Gitpod workspaces to access secrets from public cloud providers or secrets managers, with trust policies determining which resources users can access. Together, these integrations facilitate secure and controlled development environments, emphasizing the importance of SSO for authentication, SCM for repository access, and OIDC for managing secrets and sensitive resources.