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Security Vulnerability Assessment for the Software Supply Chain

Security vulnerability assessment in the software supply chain involves continuously monitoring vulnerabilities for deployed artifacts, understanding who consumes the impacted artifacts, and score the vulnerabilities’ rank by severity. This information is needed to improve the company’s threat prevention and mitigation processes. To this end, DeployHub monitors security vulnerabilities in the software supply chain, maps them to your component usage, and then reports on the logical applications and environments where those components are creating exposure. With DeployHub, you instantly gain a comprehensive view of a vulnerability’s blast radius across your entire organization so you can rapidly prioritize and remediate it.

What is a Blast Radius?

The blast radius concept originates from the idea that a change or failure in one part of a system can have a cascading effect on other interconnected components. Essentially, it measures the potential scope of impact, both in terms of the breadth of affected components and the severity of the consequences. A strategic security vulnerability assessment requires a full understanding of the scope of the attack. The blast radius exposes the scope. 

Security Vulnerability Assessment is Complex in Decoupled Architectures

Security vulnerability assessment can be very challenging in decoupled architectures due to the high number of reusable components and dependency relationships. As software systems grow in complexity, accurately predicting the impact of a single vulnerability becomes more difficult. The intricate relationships between components and consuming applications may not always be easy to see. A lack of documentation or outdated documentation can hinder developers’ understanding of system intricacies. Without automated and comprehensive relationship mapping, developers may be unaware of the impact of a single component across the entire ecosystem. 

Decoupled architectures add a level of complexity that requires more knowledge about all the pieces of the software supply chain for improving security vulnerability assessment.  In a decoupled architecture, components are independently built and deployed. They have their own vulnerabilities and SBOMs. When a component vulnerability is found, IT Teams need the component’s blast radius to contain the vulnerability quickly.

Security Vulnerability Assessment and the Blast Radius

There are several key factors that contribute to accurate security vulnerability assessment. First understanding the impact of a vulnerability requires knowledge of the affected component’s blast radius. Understanding the component’s consumers exposes the potential impact across the entire organization. The component’s blast radius risk includes:

  • Interdependencies  – Software systems are often comprised of interdependent components that rely on one another’s functionality. Vulnerabilities found in a critical component can trigger a domino effect, impacting downstream dependencies and causing unforeseen issues. Security vulnerability assessment should expose these interdependencies. 
  • Integration Points – Integration points, such as APIs, databases, and external services, represent potential areas of vulnerability. Alterations to these integration points can disrupt the flow of data and communication between different components.
  • Data Flow and State – Changes in the way data is processed or the state is managed within a component can lead to inconsistencies and errors throughout the system. Understanding the data flow is crucial to assessing the potential blast radius.

DeployHub Shows You the Blast Radius for Every Component Update

Security vulnerability assessment requires spreading the information about the threat as soon as it has been identified. DeployHub alerts application teams when they have been impacted by a vulnerability from a shared component. Knowing what component version has been impacted by a vulnerability exposes where security patches must be applied across all deployed environments. DeployHub’s continuous security intelligence tracks a component’s blast radius based on the applications that consume it. 

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