Software supply chain security is now a CXO mandate – Here’s what to do next

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By Krishnakumar Kamath, Cybersecurity Consultant, Experion Technologies

On an ordinary Tuesday morning, a product leader I know received a message that made the room go quiet: “Why is our application talking to a new destination?”

Nothing had crashed. The dashboards were calm. Yet the traffic was real and it was coming from a tool everyone trusted, approved long ago, granted legitimate access, and rarely questioned.
Many companies still underestimate modern attacks. The most damaging ones do not arrive screaming.

They arrive wearing a badge.

At the center of software supply chain security is a simple promise: protect everything your software is built from and delivered through, including third-party code, build tools, and update pipelines, so only trusted ingredients enter your product and what reaches customers is exactly what you intended.

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