How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain

The report warns that financial institutions' long-standing practice of deferring base-image and dependency upgrades is now high risk because AI-assisted tools can rapidly find and chain dormant vulnerabilities into working exploits; it recommends prioritizing supply-chain hardening (minimal continuously rebuilt images, backporting, centralized mirroring, and signed SBOMs) and separating supply-chain efforts from full application rewrites to reduce exposure and meet emerging regulatory requirements like DORA and the EU Cyber Resilience Act.