Author: Ehm, F.
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MO4BCO03 Protecting Your Controls Infrastructure Supply Chain 196
 
  • B. Copy, F. Ehm, P.J. Elson, S.T. Page, J.-B. de Martel
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • M. Pratoussy
    CPE Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
  • L. Van Mol
    Birmingham University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
 
  Supply chain attacks have been constantly increasing since being first documented in 2013. Profitable and relatively simple to put in place for a potential attacker, they compromise organizations at the core of their operation. The number of high profile supply chain attacks has more than quadrupled in the last four years and the trend is expected to continue unless countermeasures are widely adopted. In the context of open science, the overwhelming reliance of scientific software development on open-source code, as well as the multiplicity of software technologies employed in large scale deployments make it increasingly difficult for asset owners to assess vulnerabilities threatening their activities. Recently introduced regulations by both the US government (White House executive order EO14028) and the EU commission (E.U. Cyber Resilience Act) mandate that both Service and Equipment suppliers of government contracts provide Software Bills of Materials (SBOM) of their commercial products in a standard and open data format. Such SBOM documents can then be used to automate the discovery, and assess the impact of, known or future vulnerabilities and how to best mitigate them. This paper will explain how CERN investigated the implementation of SBOM management in the context of its accelerator controls infrastructure, which solutions are available on the market today, and how they can be used to gradually enforce secure dependency lifecycle policies for the developer community.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO4BCO03  
About • Received ※ 02 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 November 2023 — Issued ※ 24 November 2023
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