Today’s software developers are tasked with a lot more than just coding. To keep up with the fast-paced software-driven economy, they need to focus on automation, collaboration, security, distribution, data analysis, and agility to ensure quality builds and get releases to customers quickly and securely. DevOps and security professionals need a centralized system of records that provides visibility across the business.

Software developers build approximately 80% of software applications using open-source code, which opens up a world of opportunity for today’s threat actors. Code package repositories such as npm and RubyGems allow anyone to store or publish packages, and unfortunately that can include packages containing malware. These are known as malicious packages — the malware of the software supply chain. As the name implies, a malicious package is software that is created with malicious intent.