supply chain security

Supply chain attacks are a reality in modern software development. Thankfully, you can reduce the attack surface by taking precautions and being thoughtful about how you manage your dependencies. We…

Dependency review allows you to easily understand your dependencies before you introduce them to your environment. As part of a pull request, you can see what dependencies you’re introducing, changing, or removing, and information about their vulnerabilities, age, usage, and license.

To best apply DevSecOps principles to improve the security of your supply chain, you should ask your developers to declare your dependencies in code; and in turn provide your developers with maintained ‘golden’ artifacts and automated downstream actions so they can focus on code.

The most important way to protect supply chain threats? Scan code for security vulnerabilities, learn how to find vulnerabilities in code, and quickly patch them with dynamic code analysis tools.

Keep dependencies up to date, to make sure you can quickly apply a patch when it really matters – when there’s a critical security vulnerability.