Every IT leader knows they must secure their production systems.

But many of today’s most impactful attacks aren’t on production systems. Instead, they target the software supply chain, the process you use to create and deliver software. The well-known SolarWinds attack threatened thousands of organizations, for example, while a bug in the widely used Apache Log4j library affected millions.

Nobody wants to be the next high-profile victim of a software supply chain attack. To help you avoid this, we’ll walk through some of the most well-known and most damaging software supply chain attacks . We’ll also look at the key lessons learned from these attacks, focusing on three important actions you can take right now to protect your organization.