This ebook explains software supply chain security, outlining how modern applications depend on layered code, libraries, tools, infrastructure, and vendors, which expands the attack surface and allows compromises to propagate silently downstream. It describes common attack patterns, real-world incidents, and why risks extend beyond source code to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containers, and distribution channels. The guide emphasizes that shift-left practices and SBOMs alone are insufficient, and argues for continuous risk prioritization using runtime insights, exploitability, and exposure. It presents best practices across development, build, deployment, and operations, and reviews evolving regulatory and industry frameworks such as NIST SSDF, CISA guidance, SLSA, and OpenSSF,

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