Diego Rodriguez shares how Conan.io, an open-source package manager for C and C++, has managed to maintain supply chain security despite its wide reception.
- Conan.io is an open-source package manager for C and C++ that has over 11 million binaries built by user-submitted recipes.
- Despite its wide reception, Conan.io has had 0 security incidents since its inception.
- Conan.io utilizes automated quality checks, compiler security mitigations, package signing, a secure build pipeline, and an extremely strict and efficient review process to maintain supply chain security.
- Diego Rodriguez and his team have received over 9000 pull requests in the last two years and have a dedicated team of 10 people sponsored by jfrog as maintainers of the Conan project.
- Conan.io is becoming an important piece in the C++ ecosystem and needs to be secure.