Understanding our supply chain means understanding all the components that make it. But this is harder than it appears. Open-source components make up 80 - 90% of our application's source code, but we must also remember that our open-source components are also made from open-source components, it's like supply chain inception. SCA or Software Composition Analysis is a security tool that looks at your entire supply chain and outlines vulnerabilities, including transitive or downstream dependencies.

In this video, we show exactly how to use AWS Secrets Manager and how to connect it with your Python application. Secrets are hard to manage and while using methods like storing them as environment variables in a.env file can be suitable, a more secure method particularly in a team is to use a secrets manager so developers can avoid ever needing to handle the plain text secret. Subscribe to the channel to get more Tech Tips on Tuesdays (and also other days)