Security & Governance

Signing alone wouldn’t have stopped the LiteLLM backdoor — the attacker used the real credentials. This article explores a layered defense architecture for the Python and conda supply chain: Sigstore signing, Anaconda curation, Chainguard rebuilt-from-source, and runtime containment.

Snowflake provides a unified Zero Trust control plane for both data and AI inference. This blueprint maps Snowflake and Cortex to NIST 800-207, CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model, and OMB M-22-09 — one governance layer, one policy stack, no shadow AI.