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Towards Improving The Security Of The Software Supply Chain, Hammad Afzali
Towards Improving The Security Of The Software Supply Chain, Hammad Afzali
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A software supply chain comprises a series of steps performed to develop and distribute a software product. History has shown that each of these steps is vulnerable to attacks that can have serious repercussions and can affect many users at once. To address the attacks against the software supply chain, end users must be provided with verifiable guarantees about the individual steps of the chain and with assurances that the steps are securely chained together.
In this dissertation, the security of several individual steps in the software supply chain is enhanced. The first step of the chain, managing the source …