Trust the Artifact, Not the Story
Explain why provenance and controlled builds reduce software supply-chain tampering risk.
A release artifact should be able to answer for itself. Source is not the whole supply chain A reviewed commit can become an untrusted artifact if the build runner is mutable, the package source changes, a manual tag bypasses the pipeline, or a registry accepts overwrites. DevSecOps has to protect the path from source to deployment. Provenance creates a chain of custody Provenance links the artifact to the source, builder, and process that created it. That evidence lets deployment policy ask, "Was this built the approved way?" instead of relying on chat history or tribal knowledge. Controls should meet the…
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