Improved Software Supply Chain Resilience Equals Increased Security

This commentary addresses the growing threat of software supply chain attacks, referencing examples like attempted backdoors and repository takeovers, and argues that organizations must prioritize three pillars—visibility, governance, and continuous deployment—to improve resilience. Recommended actions include maintaining accurate, queryable inventories and SBOMs; building reproducible software and using policy-as-code; automating security checks and tests (with GenAI assistance); establishing OSPOs for OSS governance; and continuously monitoring and validating security boundaries to shrink detection-to-remediation windows.