{"id":243290,"date":"2024-08-20T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practical-devsecops.com\/?p=243290"},"modified":"2024-08-20T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:46:21","slug":"role-of-repositories-in-software-supply-chain-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practical-devsecops.com\/role-of-repositories-in-software-supply-chain-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Repositories in Software Supply Chain Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

With software at the center of almost every industry today, protecting that supply chain has never been more important. Almost every stage in the software lifecycle is potentially under threat from a range of malicious actors, so businesses are looking to enhance supply chain security. But at the core of this security issue are the repositories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Repositories are the central hubs for architecting, serving, and storing software artifacts: source code, binaries, as well as dependencies. Due to repositories being an essential part of a software supply chain, they are considered an important resource but also a potential vulnerability. <\/span><\/p>\n

This post outlines how repositories impact supply chain security and provides strategies to better manage these relationships to protect your software against an ever-changing threat environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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