Practical Guidance For Securing Your Software Supply Chain

This article explains the rising importance and complexity of securing software supply chains, highlighting risks from open-source dependencies and distributed development. It provides practical guidance — consider all supply-chain components (repos, CI/CD, artifact registries, infrastructure), adopt SBOMs for component visibility, govern the SDLC with policy-as-code, and verify artifact provenance using the SLSA framework — and points readers to standards and further resources.