Why Scanning Every Commit Is Not Enough: A Practical Guide to Software Supply Chain Security
Imagine a team that runs automated vulnerability scans on every pull request, enforces code review for every merge, and ships containers with confidence. Then one morning, their staging environment starts behaving strangely—not because of anything their developers wrote, but because a base image they pulled two weeks ago silently contained a compromised library. The scan passed. The code review passed. The trust assumption that broke everything was made before a single line of their own code was written.