Ivanti’s 2025 State of Cybersecurity Report revealed that only one in three organizations feel prepared to protect themselves from software supply chain threats. According to Cowbell’s Cyber Roundup Report 2024, with respect to supply chain threats, operating systems pose the greatest immediate threat as “they form the foundational layer of an organization’s entire IT infrastructure.”
This industry sentiment is critical when we consider that organizations are rapidly adopting containerization across both enterprise and startup environments. The average software container has 604 known vulnerabilities in its underlying software components, a new study claims, with over 45% of these vulnerabilities being 2–10 or more years old, according to new research by NetRise.
Considering this industry adoption of containers, the vulnerabilities and supply chain risk become particularly acute for organizations operating in regulated industries or…