The 2026 Artifact Management Report examines the structural vulnerabilities now embedded in modern development pipelines, and the operational, regulatory, and architectural responses required to address them.

The 2026 Artifact Management Report

Modern DevOps practices rely on fast, automated CI/CD pipelines—but with speed comes risk. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has identified the top 10 security risks that threaten software supply chains, exposing organizations to breaches, malware, and compliance failures. In this guide, Cloudsmith explores how these security risks impact CI/CD workflows and how artifact management is a critical defense strategy to secure your software supply chain.

OWASP CI/CD Security Risks: A Comprehensive Overview and Mitigation Guide

Strengthen your governance and security posture with ready-to-use Rego policies. This free cookbook provides a curated collection of policy templates to help you enforce best practices, maintain compliance, and lock down security in your software supply chain — without starting from scratch.



Rego Policy Cookbook

Legacy artifact management systems are slow, costly, and difficult to scale - leaving teams frustrated and slowing software delivery. In this guide, Cloudsmith shares a proven, enterprise-tested framework to help organizations migrate to Cloudsmith: a fully managed, cloud-native artifact management platform designed to simplify DevOps pipelines, improve security posture, and accelerate release velocity.

Migrating to Cloudsmith: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Artifact Management


In this practical guide, Cloudsmith breaks down the real security risks introduced by AI-generated code, machine learning models, and agentic workflows. It shows how centralized artifact management gives teams the control, visibility, and trust required to ship AI safely.

Securing non-deterministic systems: A practical guide to AI artifacts and LLMOps

As software supply chain risks intensify and generative AI becomes a staple in coding workflows, organizations are being pushed to fundamentally rethink how they secure, manage, and scale their artifact infrastructure. At the same time, DevOps teams are increasingly tasked with delivering software faster, and doing so safely in the face of growing regulatory pressures. Our 2025 Artifact Management Report shines a light on how engineers, security professionals, and IT leaders are balancing security, compliance, performance, and cost amid relentless change.

2025 Artifact Management Report

Strengthen your software supply chain with Cloudsmith’s Guide to Assessing Software Supply Chain Integrity. Based on the OpenSSF S2C2F framework, this guide explains how to build visibility, governance, and resilience into every stage of software delivery using artifact management.

Assessing Software Supply Chain Integrity: Achieving S2C2F Maturity with Artifact Management

We surveyed 400 platform and security engineers on how ready they are for dependency attacks. Most feel prepared, but their controls tell a different story. This report exposes the confidence gap and how to close it.

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