JFrog Named a Leader in the Inaugural Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Supply Chain Security

The recognition is new; the commitment behind it isn’t.

It’s official. Gartner just published the very first Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Supply Chain Security, and JFrog has been recognized as a Leader, placing highest for Ability to Execute among all the vendors included. For an inaugural report in a category this important, that placement means a great deal to us, and we don’t take it lightly.

What Sets JFrog Apart

Scanning code or providing certified packages isn’t enough on its own. JFrog takes a different approach, building security into the core of how software is created, managed, and delivered, so protection is there at every stage from prompt to production.

The JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform brings together capabilities that other vendors sell as point solutions: software composition analysis, license and third-party governance, continuous threat intelligence, end-to-end SBOM lifecycle management, third-party reputation analysis, and binary artifact management. One platform, one source of truth, available as SaaS, on-premises, or hybrid, because large, regulated enterprises rarely have the luxury of a pure-cloud deployment.

A few key capabilities in the JFrog Platform that contributed to the evaluation:

• JFrog Curation screens open-source packages at the front door, blocking malicious, vulnerable, or non-compliant components before they ever reach your developers. Your developers keep moving fast, just within a curated, policy-approved catalog.

• The JFrog AI Catalog and our MCP server extend that same governance to AI models and agents, because the next supply chain challenge is already taking shape in machine-generated code.

• Compliant Version Selection guides your pipelines toward safe artifacts and can substitute vetted versions automatically, so security supports release velocity instead of slowing it down. Think of it as a self-healing supply chain rather than another checkpoint.

• JFrog AppTrust attaches security attestations directly to your software packages, so integrity and provenance are continuously verified at every stage of the SDLC. Its policy-as-code governance collects evidence automatically and enforces compliance gates from build through deployment, without anyone chasing spreadsheets.

Built for Enterprise Scale

When the software supply chain becomes the attack surface, enterprises need more than capabilities on a checklist; they need proof that a platform can carry mission-critical workloads. JFrog delivers this assurance with a contractual, in-region 99.99% uptime SLA. JFrog has been providing software supply chain infrastructure since 2008, and today operates at scale for 83% of the Fortune 100 and thousands of customers worldwide.

Delivering Ahead of the Category

Securing the software supply chain has been our focus for more than a decade, long before it had a Magic Quadrant of its own. The recognition is new; the commitment behind it isn’t. If your team is shaping its software supply chain security strategy, we’d welcome the conversation.

The Build Pipeline Became the Battleground

For years, teams cobbled together separate point tools, a scanner, an SCA product, and an SBOM generator, straining to hold the seams together. Meanwhile, attackers shifted their focus from finished applications to how those applications are built: the dependencies, the build pipelines, the artifacts, and now the AI models flowing into production. A single compromised component can put an entire organization at risk.

In our view, the publishing of this new Magic Quadrant reflects a reality we have long observed: securing the software supply chain is a discipline of its own, spanning every stage from the initial consumption of open source packages to the running workload. It calls for a holistic, universal approach rather than a collection of disconnected tools. That’s a shift we’ve been building toward for over a decade.

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