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Strategies for the Integration of Software Supply Chain Security in DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines

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Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Frederick Kautz, Santiago Torres-Arias

Abstract

The predominant application architecture for cloud-native applications consists of multiple microservices, accompanied in some instances by a centralized application infrastructure, such as a service mesh, that provides all application services. This class of applications is generally developed using a flexible and agile software development paradigm called DevSecOps. A salient feature of this paradigm is the use of flow processes called continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, which initially take the software through various stages (e.g., build, test, package, and deploy) in the form of source code through operations that constitute the software supply chain (SSC) in order to deliver a new version of software. This document outlines strategies for integrating SSC security measures into CI/CD pipelines.
Citation
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 800-204D
Report Number
800-204D
NIST Pub Series
Special Publication (NIST SP)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-204D
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Keywords

actor, artifact, attestation, CI/CD pipeline, package, provenance, repository, SBOM, SDLC, SLSA, software supply chain.
Information technology

Citation

Chandramouli, R. , Kautz, F. and Torres-Arias, S. (2024), Strategies for the Integration of Software Supply Chain Security in DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-204D, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957296 (Accessed October 2, 2025)

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Created February 12, 2024
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