Software Supply Chain Security Tools for Modern DevSecOps

Armed with a complete view of your organization’s software assets, Anchore Enterprise allows you to find and prevent malicious content from reaching your users.

How Anchore Secures the Software Supply Chain

Prevent software supply chain attacks with Anchore

Anchore’s end-to-end, SBOM-powered software supply chain security management platform protects you and your customers at every step, from SBOM monitoring to policy enforcement to remediation. Anchore integrates at every stage of the software development process from source code to build to runtime. Every package, every library, every version is cataloged and stored. This enables organizations to find out where content is, where it came from, and how it changed.

Anchore’s policy engine ensures you can automate checks to detect and prevent malicious content at every step in your pipeline and ensure only the most trusted content is released to downstream users. With its flexible APIs, Anchore integrates with your existing platforms and tools to ensure that it starts delivering value without major changes to how you build and run software.

End-to-end SBOM coverage

Anchore automatically generates and analyzes comprehensive software bills of materials (SBOMs) at each step of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to help teams identify vulnerable or malicious code before it reaches production. SBOMs are stored in a repository to provide visibility into components, dependencies, and continuous vulnerability monitoring.

Enforce provenance controls

Flexible policy rules ensure only approved content is allowed into your software pipeline. Create strict rules for production that only allow the use of internal builds but allow developers to experiment with new open source libraries. Use Anchore Enterprise to better understand which vendors you are using in your applications.

Prevent content drift

Detect SBOM drift in the build process to uncover unexpected dependencies, malicious efforts to infiltrate builds, and inadvertent errors. Alert security staff to changes in SBOMs so they can be assessed for risks or malicious activity.

How Anchore helps secure your software supply chain

Software Supply Chain Security Solutions for the Public & Private Sector

Enterprises

Respond to the next Log4Shell in minutes rather than days. Enforce usage policies within developer workflows to ensure they are only using trusted components and avoid the reputation and financial costs of being the next high-profile supply chain attack victim.

Software Vendors

Establish customers’ trust in your product by demonstrating best practices in software supply chain security. Provide transparency into open source dependencies, container images, and their provenance.

Public Sector

Comply with the Secure Software Development Framework by generating and storing SBOMs across software you develop, buy, or use. Understand your dependency on open source software and its associated risks.

Software Supply Chain Security FAQs

What is software supply chain security?

Software supply chain security is the practice of identifying and preventing vulnerabilities in third-party components from compromising the applications that rely on them.

What is the primary threat to software supply chain security?

The technical and operational complexity of a software supply chain takes security risks to a new level. The historically open, collaborative nature of software development has helped improve development efficiency. Unfortunately, this has led to one of the most pervasive operating principles: assume your suppliers are doing the right thing. The software supply chain security model makes it challenging to “trust but verify” so as a supply chain owner it’s even more important to ask for more information about the software while improving collaboration and communications up and down the software supply chain.

What are a few examples of software supply chain attacks?

The SolarWinds and HAFNIUM breaches show we’re entering a new era of cyber attacks. Conventional cybersecurity strategies can’t counter an attack against an organization’s software supply chain. More recently, the extensive use of Log4j and the severity of the exploit means security professionals and development teams are going to take a more proactive stance to resolution.