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Abstract
While providing economic and software development value, software supply
chains are only as strong as their weakest link. Over the past several years,
there has been an exponential increase in cyberattacks, specifically targeting
vulnerable links in critical software supply chains. These attacks disrupt the
day-to-day functioning and threaten the security of nearly everyone on the
internet, from billion-dollar companies and government agencies to hobbyist
open-source developers. The ever-evolving threat of software supply chain
attacks has garnered interest from the software industry and the US government
in improving software supply chain security.
On September 20, 2024, three researchers from the NSF-backed Secure Software
Supply Chain Center (S3C2) conducted a Secure Software Supply Chain Summit with
a diverse set of 12 practitioners from 9 companies. The goals of the Summit
were to: (1) to enable sharing between individuals from different companies
regarding practical experiences and challenges with software supply chain
security, (2) to help form new collaborations, (3) to share our observations
from our previous summits with industry, and (4) to learn about practitioners'
challenges to inform our future research direction. The summit consisted of
discussions of six topics relevant to the companies represented, including
updating vulnerable dependencies, component and container choice, malicious
commits, building infrastructure, large language models, and reducing entire
classes of vulnerabilities.