Should You Use SLSA or CIS Software Supply Chain Security Guidelines?

**Executive summary:** This blog compares the SLSA framework and the CIS Software Supply Chain Security Guide, outlining how each approach addresses software supply chain integrity across source, build, provenance/attestations, dependencies, artifacts, and deployment. It emphasizes practical controls—SBOM generation and validation, signed artifacts, immutable build workers, pipeline-as-code, dependency pinning and scanning, and anomalous build behavior detection—and surveys related tooling (slsa-github-generator/slsa-verifier, Chain-bench, Trivy) while describing Aqua's integration capabilities for SCM, CI/CD, vulnerability management, and runtime protection.