Securing Software Supply Chain With Container and Kubernetes

Based on the study of Supply chain attacks conducted by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity(ENISIA) in 2021 shows that there had been 4 times increase in supply chain attacks than that of the last year and it’s not something that smaller companies are victims of but trends shows software supply chain attacks hit three out of five companies and after the Apache Log4j vulnerability it has significantly jumped. The SolarWinds attack is one of the few examples of how crackers find the path where companies mostly ignore stuff or have the least security which further leads to easy breaches of customers’ security. Open Source and third-party libraries make an important part of our software development Lifecycle and each dependency has its own supply chain which makes security at this level more impenetrable, According to stats 70% of the organization made supply chain security an area of focus as companies are increasing the use of Containers and Cloud-Native Deployment, they have to pay attention to surface-level vulnerabilities in these external dependencies. Containers sometimes blur the line between the application and infrastructure and can be part of both misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. We’ll further discuss some core risks surrounding k8s and containers and what are the best practices to overcome that.