Software supply
chain attacks have accelerated faster than most security teams
anticipated.Sonatype’s 2026 State of the Software Supply
Chain report identified more than 454,000 new
malicious packages published to open source repositories in
2025, bringing the cumulative total to over 1.2 million since
2019.The blast radius keeps expanding as organizations consume more
open source software, ship more container-based workloads, and
distribute software through increasingly complex pipelines.
Software supply chain security is the discipline of protecting
every component, process, and system involved