Why a secure software development life cycle is critical for manufacturers

This sponsored article examines the Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing outage as a warning for supply-chain risk in industrial environments, highlighting tactics like malicious NPM packages and prior high-profile cases (SolarWinds, Kaseya, 3CX). It urges manufacturers to enforce a mature secure software development life cycle (SSDLC) with secure coding, dependency management (SBOM), hardened release pipelines, and vulnerability response, and to prioritize IEC 62443-4-1 certification in procurement and ongoing vendor evaluations.