Strategies for the Integration of Software Supply Chain Security in DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines

Published

February 12, 2024

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Frederick Kautz, Santiago Torres-Arias

Abstract

The predominant application architecture for cloud-native applications consists of multiple microservices, accompanied in some instances by a centralized application infrastructure, such as a service mesh, that provides all application services. This class of applications is generally developed using a flexible and agile software development paradigm called DevSecOps. A salient feature of this paradigm is the use of flow processes called continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, which initially take the software through various stages (e.g., build, test, package, and deploy) in the form of source code through operations that constitute the software supply chain (SSC) in order to deliver a new version of software. This document outlines strategies for integrating SSC security measures into CI/CD pipelines.

Citation

Special Publication (NIST SP) - 800-204D

Report Number

800-204D

NIST Pub Series

Special Publication (NIST SP)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-204D

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Keywords

actor, artifact, attestation, CI/CD pipeline, package, provenance, repository, SBOM, SDLC, SLSA, software supply chain.

Citation

Chandramouli, R. , Kautz, F. and Torres-Arias, S. (2024), Strategies for the Integration of Software Supply Chain Security in DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-204D, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957296 (Accessed December 21, 2024)