Supply chain security for software companies

Modern software is assembled from dependencies your team never chose. Your customers run all of them.

Most of the code that ships in your product arrived via a package manager, not through code review. Traditional security scanning was designed for the code your teams wrote, not the dependencies they pull in. That risk flows downstream to your customers. Cloudsmith evaluates packages before they enter your environment, preventing them from causing damage and giving teams a governed path to open source and AI-generated code.

Dependency firewall

Existing security postures have a timing problem

Most scanning tools work well for the code your team writes. The gap is everything else - the dependencies that arrive automatically without developer review and ship to your customers. Cloudsmith changes that. Every external dependency passes through a control layer and is inspected against policies that you define before it reaches your engineers or ships to your customers.
  • AI-era protection: AI agents pulling dependencies at speed amplify the risk. Cloudsmith inspects every package they request, applying the same governance rules as for human developers.
  • Automated quarantine: Packages that breach your CVE thresholds, license rules, or soak-period policies are held automatically and never reach your developers.
  • Enforcement across every package: Every dependency, direct or transitive, is evaluated against rules that you define before it reaches your engineers or your customers, giving your teams a governed path to open source without restricting access or delaying work.
The threat landscape

The risk has arrived. Does your security posture protect your customers?

Supply chain attacks have moved from occasional incidents to a sustained campaign against the open source ecosystem. Your customers need to know that you have protections against this attack vector, and that the software that you ship is safe.
The Miasma worm's path of destruction

The Miasma worm's path of destruction - June 8, 2026

What started as an exploit in Red Hat’s npm packages has escalated to a sprawling supply chain disaster, spreading to 73 Microsoft GitHub repos across popular environments like Microsoft Azure and Durable Task. The fallout of this worm further emphasizes how the software security landscape has drastically shifted, creating new risks for vendors and their customers.
Axios 1.4.1 and 0.30.4 NPM packages compromised

Axios 1.4.1 and 0.30.4 NPM packages compromised - Mar 31, 2026

In the early hours of 31 March 2026, axios, an extremely popular HTTP client for JavaScript, suffered a malicious payload injection attack. While the malicious code was removed within a matter of hours, the package’s popularity means that millions of build systems may have been infected, halting development at vendors and placing their customers at risk.
How Cloudsmith can protect against the LiteLLM attack

How Cloudsmith can protect against the LiteLLM attack - May 12, 2026

A backdoored LiteLLM release exposed SSH keys, cloud credentials, and API keys across millions of developer environments in March 2026. Cloudsmith's artifact management controls can block this class of attack before it reaches your team or your customers.

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The reality of a software supply chain attack

When a breach happens, teams need to answer their customers' questions quickly to start shipping again. Without ingestion-layer security controls, answering these questions can take hours or days.

Do we use this package?

Without comprehensive SBOMs, it can be impossible to know whether a compromised package has slipped in as a transitive dependency. Cloudsmith automatically generates SBOMs and keeps them current, ensuring they are always available to answer questions.

Did we pull the impacted version?

Identifying which version of a package you are using can become a long, manual process without a full record of every request made by your developers.

Where was it deployed?

If a breach occurs, your customers will need immediate answers about whether they were impacted. You may also face reporting obligations under laws such as the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). A complete log of every package you pulled is the quickest way to get these answers and reassure your customers.

See Cloudsmith in action

Watch how Cloudsmith protects enterprise pipelines from supply chain threats, at any scale.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions from software vendors evaluating Cloudsmith. Got a question not covered here? Reach out to our team.

  1. Yes, and we make the transition as smooth as possible. Our Ultra and Enterprise plans include full onboarding support and a dedicated customer success manager who works with your team through migration planning, data transfer, and pipeline reconfiguration. We have helped dozens of enterprises migrate from JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, and homegrown solutions without disrupting active build pipelines.

  2. Cloudsmith evaluates every package at the point of ingestion, before it enters your repositories. This is the critical difference from tools that scan after the fact. When a package is flagged, Cloudsmith can quarantine it automatically, block promotion to production environments, and alert your security team, all governed by policies you define in OPA Rego. New CVE disclosures trigger continuous re-evaluation of packages already in your repositories, so a clean package today does not become a silent liability tomorrow.

  3. Yes. Cloudsmith supports 30+ package formats natively, including Docker, npm, Maven, PyPI, NuGet, Helm, Debian, RPM, Cargo, and more. All formats are managed through a single control plane with consistent security policies, access controls, and audit logging. You do not need separate tooling or governance processes for different ecosystems.

  4. Cloudsmith is cloud-native with elastic scaling, so there is no capacity ceiling. Storage and bandwidth scale automatically as your artifact volumes grow. Our global edge network spans 600+ points of presence, ensuring fast artifact delivery to engineering teams and CI/CD runners anywhere in the world. We back this with a 99.99% uptime SLA with multi-region redundancy, so your build pipelines are never blocked by infrastructure issues.

  5. Cloudsmith's Enterprise Policy Manager uses OPA Rego to define security and compliance rules as code. Your policies are version-controlled, auditable, and applied consistently across every repository, team, and package format. You can enforce CVE thresholds, license restrictions, package age (soak periods), and custom rules based on package metadata, all automated, with no manual gatekeeping required.

  6. Cloudsmith maintains a complete, immutable audit trail of every artifact ingested, every package pulled, every policy decision made, and every user action taken across your organization. When a security incident occurs, your team can trace the blast radius quickly, identifying exactly which packages, pipelines, and environments were affected. This log data can be exported to your SIEM or observability platform for centralized monitoring.

  7. Cloudsmith integrates with your Identity Provider via SAML/SSO and SCIM. User provisioning and deprovisioning happen automatically when you add or remove users in your IdP, so there is no manual offboarding. OIDC support replaces static API keys with short-lived tokens in your CI/CD pipelines, eliminating standing credential risk. Role-based access control lets you define precise permissions across teams, repositories, and environments.

  8. Cloudsmith is designed for the AI-enabled engineering era. When AI agents write code and install dependencies at high speed and volume, your artifact management platform needs to keep pace while maintaining governance. Cloudsmith inspects every dependency AI agents request against your policies, applying the same controls as for human developers. AI-generated software does not escape your security guardrails simply because it was produced by an agent.