Provenance Attestation: Verifying Software Authenticity at Scale
Introduction
Modern enterprise development pipelines rely on a complex web of open source libraries, third-party components, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native deployment strategies. As these pipelines grow more distributed, the challenge of ensuring software authenticity and integrity becomes even more acute, elevating the importance of provenance attestation for security teams, DevOps engineers, and compliance stakeholders. Provenance attestation provides a structured, auditable approach for verifying the origin, build processes, and modification history of software artifacts, enabling organizations to mitigate supply chain risks proactively.