Offline, Not Off-Guard: Countering Software Supply Chain Threats in High-Security Environments

For decades, federal programs operating in high-security or classified domains have relied on air-gapped environments as a primary line of defense.

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For decades, federal programs operating in high-security or classified domains have relied on air-gapped environments as a primary line of defense. The simple logic being that if networks are physically isolated from the public internet, they can’t be attacked from the outside. But, in today’s evolving cybersecurity landscape, this assumption of safety through isolation no longer holds.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from 2024 Sonatype Blog authored by Tom Tapley. Read the original post at: https://www.sonatype.com/blog/offline-not-off-guard-countering-software-supply-chain-threats-in-high-security-environments

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AndyC

Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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