The military and aerospace industries have traditionally championed the use of light alloys in aircraft and other components.  The push for more energy efficient vehicles coupled with its rising availability, has spurred interest for the escalating use of light alloys in the automotive industry.  However, many of these alloys are prone to corrosion when exposed to normal working environments.  Although there are a number of established methods to provide corrosion protection, they are not without technical, environmental and economical challenges.  Cold spray is a solid-state spraying process which can provide corrosion protection of light alloys without the undesirable effects of other methods of protection.  Similar to traditional thermal spray processes, cold spray produces coatings or freestanding deposits for a large number of applications in a wide range of industries.  However -unlike conventional thermal spray processes- cold spray technology can deposit metallic materials, such as pure aluminum, onto a diversity of surfaces at low temperatures, avoiding any thermal effects.  In this paper we review the potential benefits of low-pressure cold spray as a method to provide effective corrosion protection of AZ31 and 2024-T62 alloys.