Across Australia, the acceleration of AI-assisted and automated software development has created increased risk to the software supply chain. According to the 2024-25 Australian Annual Cyber Threat report, cyber incidents and malicious activity are increasing year-on-year, with an 83% increase in notifications of potentially malicious activity to  organisations compared to the previous year.  Modern applications are no longer written line by line, they are assembled. Binaries, third-party packages, container images, and AI models make up the majority of what reaches production, yet most security programs still focus primarily  on developer-written code. According to JFrog's Software Supply Chain State ...