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Insights for CISOs: Challenges and Opportunities in the Software Supply Chain Security Space

Publisher Frost & Sullivan
Published Aug 26, 2025
SKU # MC20367875

Description

Software supply chain security (SSCS) refers to the security solutions, including tools, services, and practices that protect the software development life cycle (SDLC) against cybersecurity attacks covering phases from software development (initial coding and testing) to runtime. Typical vectors that SSCS secures include open-source or third-party components (libraries or frameworks), proprietary code, repositories, development tools, and developer accounts/code-sharing platforms.

SSCS has become vital to organizations’ cybersecurity strategy, given the ever-expanding attack surface and rising cyber threats on the software supply chain. Reports of software supply chain incidents, ranging from exploitations of vulnerabilities in third-party code and misconfigured cloud services, have become undeniably common. These attacks include proprietary and commercial codes, and pose security, regulatory, and operational impacts on software producers and consumers.

As the SSCS landscape continuously evolves with technological advancements and cyber threats, SSCS vendors are offering a wide range of capabilities, approaches, and strategies in securing different stages of the SDLC. Some vendors focus on offering shift left solutions, some employ shift right, while others emphasize the post-build and pre-deployment stage of the SDLC.

It is essential that businesses today adopt comprehensive SSCS to secure their software supply chain and ensure sustainable success in this modern digital landscape. However, many CISOs are still confused about SSCS due to its complexity, evolving threat vectors, and the rapid adoption of third-party and open-source components. Organizations either adopted a “wait-and-see” approach and prefer to rely on the basic technologies to ensure SSCS, or are among the early adopters who approached SSCS in a fragmented way and did not reap the promised security.

This insight examines the evolution of SSCS, identifies the gaps in SSCS, and evaluates the frameworks or approaches that enable CISOs to make a more informed decision for broader SSCS protection.

Table of Contents

The Strategic Imperative ™
Growth Opportunity Analysis, An Overview of Software Supply Chain Security SSCS
The Evolution of SSCS and Software Supply Chain Attacks
The Difference Between SSCS and AppSec
Shared Responsibility Among Software Producers and Software Consumers
SSCS at a Strategic Inflection Point
Key Tools and Practices
Growth Opportunity Universe, Software Supply Chain Security SSCS
Growth Opportunity 1: Orchestration via a Single Platform for End-to-End Visibility
Growth Opportunity 2: Managing AI-Driven Risks While Leveraging Generative AI
Growth Opportunity 3: Secure Collaboration and Threat Intelligence Sharing
The Final Word
Appendix: Select Software Supply Chain Security Vendor Profiles
Checkmarx
JFrog
Lineaje
NSFOCUS
ReversingLabs
Sonatype
Veracode
Transformational Growth Journey

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