US Patent 11599644 Blocking insecure code with locking

Systems and methods for preventing vulnerable software assets from being deployed by modifying the underlying source code in such a way that a build of the software asset will fail. In one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for securing software artifacts in a repository comprises a repository interface communicably coupleable to a software repository to retrieve an original artifact usable for building a software asset, and to replace the original artifact in the software repository with a modified artifact. A security scanner is configured to initiate a security scan of the original artifact and produce an output indicating the presence of a security vulnerability in the original artifact. An encoder is configured to reversibly modify the original artifact to produce the modified artifact, the modified artifact unusable for building the software asset.