Rising Tide of Software Supply Chain Attacks: An Urgent Problem

This commentary reviews the growing threat of software supply chain attacks—citing SolarWinds, Okta, and the MOVEit/Cl0p incidents—and highlights a sharp rise in vulnerability-driven breaches; it emphasizes the long-term fiscal and legal impacts and recommends mitigation measures such as continuous SAST/DAST scanning, software composition analysis (SCA) and SBOMs, automated SDLC, and external exposure management.