63% of Organizations Have Fallen Victim to a Software Supply Chain Attacks: Survey
Summary
As open-source software grows to represent an ever-increasing percentage of enterprise application code, application security (AppSec) leaders and developers are challenged to mitigate the risk of falling victim to the weaponization of such packages by threat actors. Notably, the study found that 100% of the large enterprises represented by 900 AppSec professionals responding from the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific have been the victims of a software supply chain attack at some point. “Software supply chain security has become an active target of government regulatory and cybersecurity agencies and is top of mind for over half of global enterprises we surveyed,” says Amit Daniel, chief marketing officer at Checkmarx. We have seen more attacks on the open-source ecosystem in the last two years than ever before with over 385,000 malicious packages detected to date by our own Checkmarx security research team. • While 100% of organizations have experienced a software supply chain attack at some time in the past: • 18% of respondents have been the victims of a software supply chain attack within the past year • 63% had been the victims of such an attack within the past two years • While enterprise AppSec leaders surveyed are prioritizing software supply chain security, progress is slow: • 57% said that software supply chain security was a top or significant area of focus • 54% are planning to use or are investigating the use of a solution • 50% are actively requesting software bills of materials (SBOMs) from their vendors • Less than half of those seeking vendor SBOMs knew how to leverage them effectively if needed