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Why I Built an Offline Pre-Audit Platform for Supply Chain Security (Before Scanning or Pentesting)

In many security engagements, I kept seeing the same pattern.

Teams would start with:

scanners

pentests

long lists of findings

But very often, the real problem wasn’t what was exploitable,
it was where trust assumptions were already broken.

The gap before scanning

Most incidents I worked on started with:

weak sudoers configurations

unsafe update mechanisms

unpinned CI/CD dependencies

exposed management interfaces

These issues existed before any exploitation.

Yet most tools focus on what happens after.

Enter PrivLabs

I built PrivLabs to sit before scanning and exploitation.

PrivLabs is an offline supply-chain pre-audit assessment platform designed to:

identify early risk signals

structure findings

help teams decide where to focus first

It is intentionally:

non-exploiting

non-invasive

offline

human-centric

What PrivLabs does

Linux privilege escalation pre-audit

CI/CD pipeline trust analysis

Supply-chain configuration reviews

Executive-friendly risk summaries

What it does not do

No exploitation

No active attacks

No scanning

No data storage or transmission

PrivLabs complements pentesting — it doesn’t replace it.

Why offline matters

In many environments (enterprise, regulated, air-gapped), uploading data to SaaS tools is simply not an option.

PrivLabs processes everything in-memory, with no persistence.

Try it

Live demo:
https://privlabs-security-toolkit.streamlit.app/

Project overview:
https://privlabs.github.io/supplychain-security-toolkit/

Feedback is welcome — especially from people working in Blue Team, consulting, or DevSecOps roles.

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