OpenSource Project SLSA (Linux Foundation) – Overview

The topic of supply chain security is becoming increasingly important in software development. The attacks have become very sophisticated, partly fragmented, and highly specialized in recent years. Therefore, it is not always easy to identify such attacks, let alone recognize an attack that has just been carried out. The SLSA project from the Linux Foundation has taken up the cause of structuring this potential threat and making the knowledge about it available to as many people as possible.
This project includes where it sees its limits and what consequences this means for regular software development operations will look at here.

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Introduction to the Linux Foundation’s #SLSA project
Supply Chain Security is a hot topic these days. And more and more, we as developers are dealing with this daily. But what does this mean for us, and how this is influencing our job? I want to give an overview of common attacks against the Software Supply Chain from the developer’s view and will introduce the Open Source project SLSA from the Linux Foundation. 

a) Who is the project SLSA
Various experts from the security field started this project to share their knowledge, leading to the mentioned project. There is no company or governmental organization. It is a pure Open Source project under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. 

b) What is the goal of this project?
The SLSA project is an open-source project that will not provide its own source code. It is, therefore, not a classic open-source project to publish a specific solution. Instead, it is a documentation project to process knowledge about supply chain security in software development and make it freely accessible. The structure contains examples of where the events or attacks mentioned have been successfully taken and which countermeasures should be taken. We’ll look at the security levels provided a little later. The aim here is to allow the reader to slowly prepare for these threats with specific steps. 
After all, based on your own options and the current environment, you have to decide which next steps and measures make sense to implement. 

c) What is the current status of the project?
The project is currently (beginning of 2022) still in the alpha phase. There is already a lot of documentation, but some places are still provided with references to future content. So it’s always worth taking a look inside. Since this is an open-source project, you can, of course, also contribute yourself. Here you have the opportunity to make your own expertise available to others. 

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