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Supply Chain Security
Secure your code repositories, artifacts, and CI/CD tools and align them with industry-standard risk frameworks. Govern the use of open source software with SBOMs and artifact promotion with SLSA attestations.
Definitive Guide to Secure Software Delivery
We’ll provide an overview of what’s required from a tools, technologies, and process perspective to deliver software that is more secure, faster.
Manage CI/CD Security Posture, End To End
The code repositories, artifacts & CI/CD tools that make up the software supply chain are often susceptible to compromise due to over-privileged user access, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities in the tools themselves. The Supply Chain Security (SCS) module enables you to harden supply chain entities with confidence, starting with automated scans that pinpoint vulnerabilities against industry-standard risk frameworks.
Secure code repositories
Identify misconfigurations in your repos and artifacts using out of the box compliance rules and detect vulnerabilities using SAST, SCA & Secret Scanning
Secure build pipelines
Prevent your build pipelines against unwarranted user input and executable commands that could lead to a compromised build system using supply chain rules
Industry-standard compliance and reporting
Generate out-of-the-box compliance reports on security posture against industry-standard frameworks such as CIS & OWASP Top 10 Security Risks for CI/CD
Policy-driven Governance With Artifact Chain Of Custody
Govern artifact promotion with SLSA build attestation
Enforce SLSA policies within your CI/CD pipeline to ensure the integrity of artifacts, preventing tampering and ensuring that they originate from trusted build environments. This includes SLSA level-3 attestations for Harness CI-hosted builds.
Comprehensive audit trail
Exportable audit logs capture build details, such as SBOM generation and SLSA attestations, along with deployment details, including SBOM governance and artifact promotion governance, offering full traceability throughout the development lifecycle.
Control usage of OSS dependencies
Enforce policies using the Open Policy Agent (OPA) to prevent the use of harmful or risky open source dependencies using SBOM’s based on component name, license, PURL etc
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Rapid Remediation
Block Zero day Vulnerabilities
Search for components containing zero day vulnerabilities within minutes and block them in your next build using OPA policies across deployed environments
Track Remediation
Create Remediate trackers for actively tracking risk & compliance issues along with vulnerabilities found in your dependencies in real time with your developers.
Secure your software supply chain with Harness SCS
See how SCS protects both Harness and 3rd party code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I implement comprehensive Software Supply Chain Security?
Implementing Software Supply Chain Security requires a multi-layered approach combining SCA for dependency analysis, secrets detection to prevent credential leaks, container security for image validation, and SBOM generation for transparency. Start by integrating SCA tools into your CI/CD pipeline to identify vulnerable dependencies, implement automated secrets detection across repositories, and generate Software Bill of Materials for all releases. Progress toward SLSA compliance by establishing secure build processes, cryptographic signing, and provenance attestation. Regular container security scanning and continuous SBOM updates ensure ongoing Supply Chain Security protection.
How do I generate and maintain an accurate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)?
Generating accurate Software Bill of Materials requires automated tooling integrated into your CI/CD pipeline that analyzes code, dependencies, and container images. Leading SCA solutions create SBOMs in standardized formats like SPDX or CycloneDX, supporting Software Supply Chain Security compliance requirements. Maintaining SBOM accuracy demands continuous updates as dependencies change, integrating secrets detection to identify credential exposure, and enriching SBOM data with vulnerability information. SLSA-compliant build processes with cryptographic signing ensure SBOM integrity throughout the software supply chain.
How does Container Security relate to Software Supply Chain Security?
Container security is fundamental to Software Supply Chain Security because containers package not only application code but entire dependency chains including base images, libraries, and system packages. Container security scanning examines images for vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, and exposed secrets throughout the supply chain. Since vulnerable container base images affect all downstream applications, container security with SBOM generation provides visibility into your complete Software Supply Chain, enabling teams to track and remediate vulnerabilities across containerized environments efficiently.
What is SLSA and why is it important for Supply Chain Security?
SLSA (Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts) is a security framework developed by Google and the OpenSSF that defines standards for securing the Software Supply Chain. SLSA provides four progressive levels of Supply Chain Security maturity, from basic version control to comprehensive build integrity verification. Implementing SLSA helps organizations prevent tampering, ensure build reproducibility, and verify software provenance. SLSA compliance enhances Software Supply Chain Security by establishing trust in your Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and build artifacts through cryptographic attestation.
What is a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)?
A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a comprehensive inventory listing all components, libraries, and dependencies within a software application. SBOMs provide transparency into your Software Supply Chain Security posture by documenting component versions, licenses, and origin information. Regulatory frameworks and executive orders increasingly mandate SBOM generation, making it essential for Supply Chain Security Compliance. Organizations use SBOMs to rapidly identify exposure when new vulnerabilities are disclosed in open source components, enabling faster response to Software Supply Chain Security threats.
What is the relationship between SLSA compliance and SBOM generation?
SLSA compliance and SBOM generation are complementary Software Supply Chain Security practices. While Software Bill of Materials provides an inventory of components, SLSA establishes verifiable provenance proving where and how software was built. SLSA Level 2 and above require build process documentation that complements SBOM data, creating comprehensive Supply Chain Security attestation. Organizations pursuing SLSA compliance typically generate signed SBOMs with provenance metadata, integrate container security verification, implement secrets detection, and maintain audit trails demonstrating software supply chain integrity.
What are the biggest threats to Software Supply Chain Security?
Software Supply Chain Security faces threats including compromised dependencies, malicious package injections, stolen credentials discovered through inadequate secrets detection, and vulnerable container images. High-profile attacks like Codecov, SolarWinds, and npm package compromises demonstrate how attackers exploit trust relationships in the software supply chain. Additional threats include unsigned artifacts, absence of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for vulnerability tracking, and insufficient SLSA compliance. Comprehensive Supply Chain Security requires SCA, container security, secrets detection, and provenance verification to mitigate these risks.
How does Software Composition Analysis (SCA) improve Supply Chain Security?
Software Composition Analysis strengthens supply chain security by identifying vulnerabilities, licensing risks, and outdated components in your software dependencies. SCA tools continuously monitor open source and third-party libraries against vulnerability databases, alerting teams to Supply Chain Security risks before exploitation. Modern SCA solutions generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) automatically, support secrets detection in dependencies, and integrate with container security scanning to provide comprehensive Software Supply Chain Security coverage across development and deployment environments.
What is Software Supply Chain Security?
Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) protects the entire software development and delivery pipeline from code creation through production deployment. Supply Chain Security encompasses multiple security layers including software composition analysis (SCA), secrets detection, container security, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation. As modern applications rely on hundreds of third-party dependencies and build tools, software supply chain security has become critical for preventing attacks like the SolarWinds breach and Log4Shell vulnerability that exploit trust relationships in the development ecosystem.
