The Breach You Didn’t Expect: Your AppSec Stack

Imagine this.

The Wake Up Call

Your phone rings on January 2nd, and it’s your DevSecOps and AppSec groups. A major security vulnerability is exposing your business, and your teams are trying desperately to find and fix it to protect your data.

You probably have scars as far back as Log4j, as well as threats from  more recent incidents like npm attacks, Glassworm and others ringing in your ears. With CVEs expected to rise by tens of thousands a year, you can envision that the situation will only worsen. What will you do when trouble strikes again?

You’ll of course call your security vendors right away. How can your point solution help? What’s the fastest path to a fix from your DevSecOps stack? Can these tools protect your business right now? Will they actually give you full visibility across your organization, or leave gaps when you can least afford them? We all know these companies, they all got flooded with concerned customers’ phone calls…

Your Time of Need

Now imagine in your time of need that the support staff on the other end of the phone is unresponsive. Imagine that reaching out to your secondary vendor produces the same results.

Unfortunately, these teams may have just gone through a nightmare in their own right. In a consolidating market, it’s possible a Private Equity firm has just acquired them (or they are negotiating while your software supply chain is under attack), and they’re now focused on “streamlining” operations through layoffs and cutting costs. It’s realistic that a large company that acquires a point solution vendor is now focused on platform integration, not product improvement or research. And certainly not the level of innovation required to address the new threats introduced by our AI-driven world. Newly-merged entities are often busy selling their latest bundle, not focused on customer success.

When speed and accuracy are of the essence, your very-real pipelines are too critical to allow your choice of AppSec vendor to increase your risk. As we enter 2026, you have to ask:

When that “red phone” rings and your software supply chain is under attack, who are you trusting to come and protect you?

Unfortunately, this theoretical scenario could all-too-likely become a reality. With the tooling sprawl in AppSec and DevSecOps, it’s understandable that there may be some redundancies in your solution portfolio. But, if like every other industry, consolidation and standardization are a reality, many of your most trusted point solutions could be on shaky ground – maybe even all at once.

What do you do then? Is there an alternative to your legacy, point solution software supply chain security tools for your business? What are the alternatives to your SAST vendor if they were to be acquired? Can a scanner (that used to be a security solution) protect your entire business if they “got distracted”? How could you replace an OSS license scanner? What if all of the above happens at the same time?

Your Next Move

The JFrog Platform is purpose-built to integrate your AppSec portfolio into a single, unified solution that is already part of your pipelines – not bolted on. At JFrog, our dedicated team of security experts works around the clock to detect and find fixes for vulnerabilities that threaten your software supply chain across code and binaries. Our customers know their applications are holistically covered: From curating risky third-party components before they ever enter your SDLC, to advanced AppSec scanners, Secure AI usage and development, Runtime security and full governance across the board.

Don’t let AppSec point solutions increase your risk in 2026. You need an end-to-end software supply chain security platform that consolidates AppSec scanners with existing development pipelines and tools.  JFrog is one of the leading industry solutions, as reflected by top analyst firms and hundreds of satisfied customers for whom we provide end-to-end software supply chain protection.

It’s actually risk free to see how JFrog can help take the risk out of your AppSec operations, by taking an online tour, scheduling a demo or starting a free-trial at your convenience. Before disaster strikes.

Imagine that.