This ACM Queue article surveys five decades of open source software supply chain security challenges and defenses. It traces the evolution from early Unix-era concerns to modern incidents like Log4Shell, discussing detection, prevention, and mitigation strategies across the development lifecycle.
Background
Open source software now underpins the majority of modern applications, making its supply chain a critical security concern as dependency complexity has grown exponentially over the past five decades.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Sep 23, 2026 at 05:08 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10