Reconnaissance
Study attacker playbooks: how they scout repos, probes, and your dev tooling.
Developer-Focused • Supply Chain Security
REFLEX: Developer-First Defense for the AI Age
Learn how to spot, stop, and survive modern software supply chain attacks—from AI-poisoned models to Shai-Hulud-style worms. Build security as muscle memory, not a checklist.
Hands-on
Real-world
Red-team aware
Data Exfiltration & Phishing Attacks
Over a quarter of threats are actively trying to steal credentials, environment variables, and proprietary code.
A single compromised developer machine can expose the entire organization
The Most Painful Insight
95% of the time a vulnerable open-source component is used by a developer ..
A version with a fix already exists but was not chosen
The Supply Chain Is Under Attack
Packages
Malicious & hijacked packages
Typosquats, dependency confusion, maintainer takeovers, and CI secrets leaks all route through your build.
Models
AI-poisoned artifacts
Backdoored models, adversarial inputs, and prompt-aware exfil paths slip past traditional SCA and scanners.
Pipelines
CI/CD as the blast radius
Unsigned artifacts, weak verification, and implicit trust chains turn “merge” into “mayday”.
How REFLEX helps
REFLEX is a practical framework that embeds defensive habits into daily development. It’s built by developers, for developers — no hand-waving, just skills you can ship.
By using practical examples and a code first approach, developers learn security first practices
Evaluate
Map your code, deps, and pipelines to known attack paths. Prioritize by impact.
Fortify
Lock down builds: signing, policies, provenance, secrets hygiene, least privilege.
Limit
Design for failure: kill-switches, blast-radius control, and compartmentalized data.
Expose
Make attacks obvious: SBOM diffs, anomaly alerts, e2e verification, tamper signals.
eXercise
Run live drills: dev-first incident practice, red/blue reps, and rapid remediation.
Why Now: The AI & Worm Era
Attackers have copilots too
AI collapses discovery time: package names, maintainer patterns, leaked tokens, and weak links in your pipeline are enumerated in minutes—not weeks.
REFLEX response: defenses that scale with automation—policy-as-code, signed provenance, and runtime detection where it counts.
The “Shai-Hulud” pattern
Worm-like campaigns quietly burrow through transitive deps and trust boundaries. By the time you see the sand ripple, it’s inside your sand-box.
REFLEX response: choke points, supply-chain tripwires, and rehearsed containment.
Learn by Doing
Learn how to set Supply Chain Tripwires
Add lightweight checks that light up when deps, SBOMs, or provenance change unexpectedly.
Learn morehow to deal with AI Adversarial Models?
Detect and contain model tampering and poisoned datasets across your AI pipeline.
Learn MoreDeveloper Workshops
Hands-on labs for Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python. Build, break, fix—then automate the defense.
Team Programs
Custom drills mapped to your stack: CI/CD, artifact registries, model pipelines, and runtime environments.
Executive Briefings
Risk-to-engineering translation: where to invest, what to measure, and how to govern without slowing delivery.
Ready to build your defenses?
Kick off with a discovery call or book a live workshop. Your supply chain won’t secure itself.
Meet the Author
Meet Steve Poole
Accomplished technical leader and developer advocate with years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, and security.
An expert on cybercrime and software supply chain security.
Recognized international public speaker and author on software supply chain security, AI, and cybercrime legislation.
A Proven track record in driving product innovation, improving development processes, and fostering vibrant open-source communities.