As businesses digitize, the uptake of applications has been inevitable. Digital transformation has boosted the demand for innovation among software producers and software development life cycle (SDLC) developers in order to meet business goals. As a result, software producers are either migrating their services, assets, and applications to cloud environments; adopting open-source code or software for speed and to save money; or adopting advanced software delivery pipeline tools such as integrated development environment (IDE), CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), build automation tools, and GitOps workflow to manage their application development process.
While open-source software components, no-code/low-code platforms, and modern application delivery tools have benefitted the software development process, it has also expanded the attack surface of the software supply chain from code, APIs, workloads, and cloud infrastructure to applications. With the rapid growth of attacks targeting unmonitored areas of the development environment and components in the software supply chain, such as zero-day exploits, malware, code injection, CI/CD pipeline breaches, credential theft, container image security threats, and compliance issues, CISOs and SecOps teams are challenged to secure the SDLC and ensure software supply chain security (SSCS).
With the increasing emphasis on shift-left security or a secure-by-design approach, there is a shift in responsibility aiming to offer more developer-focused security that increases requirements for proof of use of SSCS best practices to ensure secure practices in the developer environment. SSCS, which offers security solutions and practices to protect the SDLC against vulnerabilities and cybersecurity risks, will need to cover vectors such as open-source or third-party components (library or frameworks), proprietary code, repositories, development tools, and developer accounts/code-sharing platforms.
Legacy software, network, and application security solutions are no longer effective in helping organizations navigate this complex and ever-evolving supply chain threat landscape. As organizations look for a more effective strategy in securing the dynamic, distributed, and transient supply chain environment including SDLC, there is a shift in demand to a more modern, automated, and consolidated SSCS strategy.
Frost & Sullivan identified 12 companies that topped the global SSCS market and exemplified visionary innovation efforts in the past year and benchmarked them across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria for this Frost Radar™ analysis. This publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™, highlighting their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.
Software Supply Chain Security 2024
- Software Supply Chain Security
Frost Radar™: Benchmarking Future Growth Potential 2 Major Indices, 10 Analytical Ingredients, 1 Platform
Growth Index
Growth Index (GI) is a measure of a company’s growth performance and track record, along with its ability to develop and execute a fully aligned growth strategy and vision; a robust growth pipeline system; and effective market, competitor, and end-user focused sales and marketing strategies.
- Market Share (previous 3 years)
This is a comparison of a company’s market share relative to its competitors in a given market space for the previous 3 years. - Revenue Growth (previous 3 years)
This is a look at a company’s revenue growth rate for the previous 3 years in the market/industry/category that forms the context for the given Frost Radar™. - Growth Pipeline
This is an evaluation of the strength and leverage of a company’s growth pipeline system to continuously capture, analyze, and prioritize its universe of growth opportunities. - Vision and Strategy
This is an assessment of how well a company’s growth strategy is aligned with its vision. Are the investments that a company is making in new products and markets consistent with the stated vision? - Sales and Marketing
This is a measure of the effectiveness of a company’s sales and marketing efforts in helping it drive demand and achieve its growth objectives.
Innovation Index
Innovation Index (II) is a measure of a company’s ability to develop products/ services/ solutions (with a clear understanding of disruptive Mega Trends) that are globally applicable, are able to evolve and expand to serve multiple markets and are aligned to customers’ changing needs.
- INNOVATION SCALABILITY
This determines whether an organization’s innovations are globally scalable and applicable in both developing and mature markets, and also in adjacent and non-adjacent industry verticals. - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
This is a measure of the efficacy of a company’s R&D strategy, as determined by the size of its R&D investment and how it feeds the innovation pipeline. - PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
This is a measure of a company’s product portfolio, focusing on the relative contribution of new products to its annual revenue. - MEGATRENDS LEVERAGE
This is an assessment of a company’s proactive leverage of evolving, long-term opportunities and new business models, as the foundation of its innovation pipeline. - CUSTOMER ALIGNMENT
This evaluates the applicability of a company’s products/services/solutions to current and potential customers, as well as how its innovation strategy is influenced by evolving customer needs.
Significance of Being on the Frost Radar™
Companies plotted on the Frost RadarTM are the leaders in the industry for growth, innovation, or both. They are instrumental in advancing the industry into the future.
- GROWTH POTENTIAL
Your organization has significant future growth potential, which makes it a Company to Action. - BEST PRACTICES
Your organization is well positioned to shape Growth Pipeline™ best practices in your industry. - COMPETITIVE INTENSITY
Your organization is one of the key drivers of competitive intensity in the growth environment. - CUSTOMER VALUE
Your organization has demonstrated the ability to significantly enhance its customer value proposition. - PARTNER POTENTIAL
Your organization is top of mind for customers, investors, value chain partners, and future talent as a significant value provider.
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| Deliverable Type | Frost Radar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ying Ting Neoh |
| Industries | Aerospace, Defence and Security |
| No Index | No |
| Is Prebook | No |
| Keyword 1 | Software Supply Chain Security Analysis |
| Keyword 2 | Supply Chain Security Trends |
| Keyword 3 | Cybersecurity Trends |
| Podcast | No |
| WIP Number | PF83-01-00-00-00 |
Frost Radar™: Software Supply Chain Security, 2024
A Benchmarking System to Spark Companies to Action - Innovation that Fuels New Deal Flow and Growth Pipelines
16-Jan-2024
Global
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