Monitor, audit, enforce. Ship in four weeks.

Week 1 · Deploy, point one pilot team

• Stand up Chainsaw on your cloud or managed SaaS. Docker Compose for dev; Kubernetes or ECS for prod.
• Provision the control-plane database and (optional) Redis for webhook delivery at scale.
• Issue scoped client credentials to one pilot team's CI and laptops.
• Confirm installs flow through the proxy. No policy active yet; everything passes with an audit record.

Week 2 · Monitor mode, org-wide

• Roll out the baseline policy template (CVE floor, license allowlist, and every supply-chain attack signal your proxied ecosystems support) in monitor mode.
• Point the remaining teams at the proxy. Nothing breaks because monitor mode logs without blocking.
• Review the daily monitor report. Every legitimate install that trips a rule is a candidate for exception or rule tuning.
• Assign owners for exceptions: one reviewer per team, tracked in the dashboard with expiry dates.

Week 3 · Enforce the low-risk rules

• Flip known-malware, dependency-confusion, and hidden-Unicode rules to block. Each fires on coordinate-exact or byte-level evidence, so a refusal names the specific thing it found.
• Flip typosquat to block, and budget for exceptions. It infers from name similarity, so it refuses some real packages: measured on 24,206 real packages held outside the popularity corpus, 1.02% are refused. Each clears in one command, per coordinate, offline: an exception, not an outage.
• Flip the Docker malware feed and per-layer image enforcement to block for new image builds.
• Coordinate one short announcement: developers know what now fails and who owns the exception path.
• Shift monitor reports to weekly cadence once the signal is steady.

Week 4 · Enforce the high-risk rules

• Flip CVE floor, license allowlist, install-script exfiltration, publisher-changed, and publish-velocity rules to block or quarantine.
• Wire SIEM stream (Splunk HEC, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar) if you're on Enterprise.
• Document your rollout and exception process. That doc feeds your SOC 2 / ISO evidence pack.
• Move to steady state: weekly review of new exceptions, quarterly policy review, rule additions as new attack patterns land.