Why Companies Need To Pay Attention To Software Supply Chain Security

A software supply chain attack happens when an attacker enters and modifies software in the complicated software development supply chain to imperil a target farther down on the chain by injecting their malicious code. These inserts can be employed to further modify code by getting system permissions or to directly deliver a malicious payload or backdoor package. Software supply chain attacks exploit established channels of system verification to acquire privileged access to systems and to compromise big networks and databases.  By software supply chain, we basically mean everything that goes into making a software product, including all the components, packages and repositories. Modern software products comprise a huge number of dependencies on other code and therefore tracking do