Securing Software Supply Chain
Protecting Every Stage, From Code to Deployment
October, 2026
Gartner names software supply chain as one of four critical threats where attackers hold a significant advantage with GenAI accelerating attacks through open-source vulnerabilities. Its guidance: build comprehensive software asset inventories, harden CI/CD pipelines, and integrate strong controls at every stage of development. Specific actions include requiring SBOMs and AIBOMs from vendors, using curated repositories for third-party code and AI models, signing build artifacts, implementing least-privilege access controls on build systems, and continuously monitoring runtime activity by agentic tools.
Explore Gartner’s 2026 – 2027 ThreatScape to see why the software supply chain ranks among the four critical threats and the actions Gartner recommends CISOs take now.
Building Security Resilience Across the Software Development Lifecycle
Software supply chain attacks have exposed vulnerabilities across every phase of development, from planning and coding to deployment and operations. Each phase carries its own risk: attackers can tamper with build processes to inject malicious code, source code can be exposed through misused credentials or insecure third-party components, and text environments often hold sensitive data. Scanning code and reviewing configurations alone cannot close these gaps. Organizations need consistent security controls across every phase of the lifecycle.
Read the article, developed in collaboration with the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, to see how the NIST Secure Software Development Framework, Zero Trust, and policy-based access control help organizations achieve consistent, data-centric protection across every phase of SDLC.
From Framework to Practice: Securing DevSecOps at Scale
The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Software Supply Chain and DevSecOps Security Practices Project develop practical recommendations and reference implementations for embedding security across the software development lifecycle. Consistent with the NIST Secure Software Development Framework, the project demonstrates how enterprises can integrate security throughout DevSecOps workflows, from development and build to packaging, distribution, deployment, and operations, while maintaining development velocity.
Explore how NextLabs, one of 14 vendors collaborating with NIST NCCoE, contributes Zero Trust and policy-based access control to the project, including proof-of-concept scenarios where security findings were automatically converted into development work items and remediated through policy -driven workflows in a live DevSecOps pipeline.
From Reactive to Proactive: Elevate Cyber Defense with Automate and Prevent (A&P)
Detect and Respond (D&R) remains essential, especially for catching unknown or advanced threats, but it is reactive by design: it acts after threats have entered an enterprises’ environment. Manual triage, false positives, and alert fatigue stretch security team, and the model struggles to scale as environments grow. Automating prevention measures, such as least-privilege access, data masking, and policy-based controls, helps stop known threats before they trigger an alert, allowing the team to focus on fewer, higher-impact incidents
Learn more about extending D&R with Automate and Prevent to build a more mature, scalable Zero Trust data-centric security posture that protects critical data before, during, and after an attack.
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