January 06, 2023

Software Supply Chain Security with Chainguard

50 minutes

😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret is joined by two Chainguard co-founders, CEO Dan Lorenc and Head of Product, Kim Lewandowski, to break down the ins and outs of supply chain security and talk about Chainguard's approach to securing it. We dive into tools, including their new Wolfi Linux distro.

We first talk about what that even is, because it's a buzzword right now, and not everyone's on the same page on what securing your supply chain even means in the world of software. Then we jump into base images for containers, and their project Wolfi. We talk a lot about Wolfi in this episode, because it has the potential to change how we build our containers.

Streamed live on YouTube on October 13, 2022.

Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #188)

★Topics★
Chainguard Website
Chainguard Twitter
Chainguard Academy
Wolfi
Wolfi-based images
Sigstore

★Dan Lorenc★
Dan Lorenc on Twitter
Dan Lorenc on Linkedin

★Kim Lewandowski★
Kim Lewandowski on Twitter
Kim Lewandowski on Linkedin

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(00:00) - DDT MAIN

(00:04) - Intro

(00:54) - Custom intro

(02:51) - Main show

(03:04) - Introductions

(03:24) - How did Chainguard get started?

(04:23) - What is a supply chain?

(06:30) - First Security Things

(08:55) - The article and the base image

(12:02) - Wolfi elevator pitch

(14:49) - How do packages get into Wolfi?

(18:49) - How do Wolfi packages work

(21:57) - Chainguard Enforce

(26:43) - Question about in-toto

(29:08) - Preventing unsigned images in production

(30:44) - Blocking vulnerable dependencies with policies

(31:39) - Scanning on servers

(34:02) - Question

(35:53) - Question

(37:50) - Getting started with Wolfi

(39:57) - Where are they on Github (demo?)

(40:50) - Question about vex

(43:13) - What else?

(43:40) - Chainguard Academy

(45:24) - Professional services

(49:32) - Wrapping up

(49:56) - Outro

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