Welcome to the first post of the malicious software packages series for the DevOps and DevSecOps community. Each Monday, this technical series will focus on various malicious packages and their effects on the software supply chain, all published over the next four weeks. We’ll dive deeper into malicious packages in each post, including Here we go. Let’s discuss malicious software packages in your software supply chain.
Today marks an exciting day for JFrog and a substantial step forward towards ensuring end-to-end software supply chain security. JFrog Advanced Security is our unique approach for DevOps-centric security, and the only solution that was built especially for today’s modern DevOps workflows.
The market-leading CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, applying a combination of advanced machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and deep analytics across the trillions of security events captured in the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, has identified a new supply chain attack pattern during the installation of a chat based customer engagement platform.
On September 14, the White House released Executive Order M-21-30, emphasizing and reminding us that there are NIST guidelines for securing any software being sold to the US Government. According to the Executive Order (EO), self-attestation is a requirement for software vendors or agencies and acts as a “conformance statement” outlined by the NIST Guidance.
