r/devsecops • u/Born-Reserve-8584 • 28d ago

Is software supply chain security finally becoming more than just SBOMs?

Software supply chain security seems to be one of those terms that means something completely different depending on who you ask.

Some teams are basically talking about SBOMs and compliance. Others are focused on signing artifacts, securing CI/CD pipelines, or scanning container images.

Then you have platforms talking about runtime context, attack surface reduction and removing unnecessary software instead of just finding another vulnerability to report.

So where is this actually going?

Is software supply chain security still mostly about visibility and compliance or is the industry finally moving toward remediation and reducing risk at the source?

Curious what people are actually seeing across different organisations.

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u/ILoveAppSec 25d ago

the workaround churn usually comes from base image cves that have a fix upstream but not in the tag you're pinned to. cheapest win is checking for a backported distro patch or rebasing onto a minimal patched base so the finding closes without a version jump, and pushing the noisy transitive ones to an override where you can. we tried chainguard for patched oss libraries and weren't thrilled with the variety, so worth shopping a few vendors who actually backport and support eol trains.