Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2025 Trend Report, Software Supply Chain Security: Enhancing Trust and Resilience Across the Software Development Lifecycle.
In today’s software landscape, the supply chain has grown from a controlled pipeline to a vast, interconnected ecosystem. Modern development relies heavily on third-party dependencies, open-source components, distributed CI/CD pipelines, and ephemeral cloud-native environments. While this fosters rapid innovation, it also amplifies risk exposure. High-profile breaches like SolarWinds and Log4Shell revealed how a single weak link can cascade across thousands of organizations.