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The Security Tax: A 2026 Playbook for Supply Chain Security and Compliance

Software supply chain attacks have moved past simple open-source package exploitation into deep infrastructure targeting: CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and misconfigured infrastructure-as-code, accelerated by AI on both sides of the fight. Meanwhile, regulatory pressure is mounting across the board, from the EU Cyber Resilience Act to FedRAMP 20x, NIS2, and DORA, pushing compliance from an annual check-the-box exercise into a continuous, real-time audit. The result is what we call the “security tax”: the hours developers and compliance teams lose to manual audit prep, spreadsheet-based assessments, and chasing data across disconnected tools. Join Alex Rybak, Sr. Director of Product Management at Anchore, to learn about the “security tax” and strategies to mitigate it via a "continuous compliance" approach. You'll walk away with: How to calculate your own security tax What continuous compliance actually requires A roadmap for staying ahead of the CRA, FedRAMP 20x, NIS2, and DORA

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Software Supply Chain Security Alex Rybak Sr. Director, Product Management
Today’s Topics 2 1 The “threat landscape” 2 The “compliance crunch” 3 The “security tax” 5 The “key takeaways” 4 The “strategic roadmap”
The “threat landscape” Industry trends 3 Software supply chain security (SSCS) has grown from a niche concern into a top enterprise priority with market revenue at $2.8B+ and expected to grow to $5B+ by 2030 1 ● Regulations drive product roadmaps: the EU CRA, financial and medical regulations, and FedRAMP are driving needs for attestations, SBOM/VEX ingestion, and audit-ready evidence ● A strategic pivot from periodic scanning to continuous processes embedded in dev toolchains ● Broad adoption of SBOMs and attestations as minimum compliance artifacts ● Vulnerability triage favors exploitability analysis and runtime reachability rather than raw scores ● Paranoia around all things AI: interest in controls for AI assets and LLM supply chains including discovery, governance, and lineage ● Massive expansion of the attack plane: shifted from simple OSS package exploitation to deep infrastructure targeting (CI/CD pipelines, build systems, dev tools, and misconfigured IaC); recent attacks where a firm’s AI hacked another company 2 3 (1) Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security (2) OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation (3) Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company
The “threat landscape” Attacks are increasing exponentially and are more sophisticated 4 1. https://beazley.security/insights/quarterly-threat-report-first-quarter-2026 2. https://modall.ca/blog/ai-in-software-development-trends-statistics 3. https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/ai-assisted-vulnerability-discovery 4. Anchore CRA webinar survey (2026) The “What”... Too Many Vulnerabilities Reported vulnerabilities in the 1st quarter of the past 4 years 1 ~85% of devs are using AI tools 2 ~50% of newly written code is AI-assisted 2 Sharp upward shift in disclosure rates and frequency caused by AI-assisted vulnerability discovery 3 The “Why”... AI You may be able to rely on an LLM to generate code quickly, but you still need a deterministic way to prove to auditors, customers, and internal risk boards that the software doesn't contain hidden supply chain risks. NVD 42% CISA KEV 25% EUVD 17% Which security data source do you trust most? 4
The “threat landscape” Cyber regulations are very complex and are driving innovation 5 Global organizations must meet a variety of cybersecurity-related requirements that vary by industry NIST FedRAMP CISA SSDF EO ICTS FDA PCI DSS NERC FFIEC DORA CRA PLD NIS2 MDR GDPR AI CERT-In ISO/IEC DoD/DISA 92% surveyed are not yet CRA compliant 8% surveyed have not yet started their journey Anchore CRA webinar survey (2026); note that CRA vulnerability reporting obligations begin on Sept. 11th
The “compliance crunch” 6 Typical Regulatory Requirements ● Accurate inventory of software components used ● SBOMs often implied or directly required ● Manage third-party risk, including open source ● Identify and remediate vulnerabilities ● Continuous monitoring for new vulnerabilities ● Tracking and recordkeeping ● Disclosure and reporting Emerging Regulatory Requirements ● Software components beyond typical OSS packages (AI, ML, runtime API dependencies) ● SBOM context and relationships (HBOMs) ● Triaging vulnerabilities using exploitability analysis and runtime reachability rather than raw scores ● One click away compliance proof-points ● Extremely short security reporting windows Compliance is no longer an annual check-the-box exercise. It has evolved into a continuous real-time operational audit.
The “security tax” 7 2026 SSCS Trends Report Security Scorecard: 2026 Supply Chain Cybersecurity Trends Report ● Glaring Blind Spots: 78% of organizations admit their internal cybersecurity programs cover less than 50% of their total vendor ecosystem ● AI-Driven Threats: Leaders now rank AI-driven threats as their #1 supply chain risk, yet 67% still rely on static security audits for assessment ● The Remediation Lag: Due to reliance on manual communication such as emails and phone calls, 60% of organizations take 8 days or more to remediate high-severity issues The massive drainage of hours spent on manual audits, spreadsheet assessments, and merging data from multiple tools. Scaling these manual processes across thousands of software components creates an unsustainable operational "security tax" on dev & compliance teams. Anchore Enterprise v6 Eliminating the “Security Tax” with Anchore Enterprise v6 ● Unified Asset Model for Global Compliance: a normalized view of your applications’ compliance state with one-click generation of unified SBOMs, VDR, and VEX documents ● Precision Triage with Anchore Score & VEX: streamlines vulnerability management by prioritizing real-world risk over static severity ● Centralized Third-Party SBOM Management: full visibility into the security of software you didn’t build via SBOM imports ● Continuous Monitoring & Automated Reporting: alerts & compliance views driven by “policy-as-code” regulatory policies
SBOMs Your “secret weapon” for compliance 8 Up to date SBOMs with VEX for security assessment snapshots Complete inventory of all packages across heterogeneous environments Zero day impact analysis via SBOM search Vulnerabilities linked to package versions SBOMs Supply Chain Transparency and Security Organization’s Source of Truth Incident Response and Recovery Vulnerability Management
The “strategic roadmap” 9 ● Shift Left but Protect Right: automate security gates at code commit or automated builds, but maintain real-time automated monitoring across the runtime environment (things slip through) ● Invest in Your SBOMs: standardize on machine-readable formats for complete and accurate up-to-date SBOM (SPDX / CycloneDX) for both internal software and third-party vendor components ● Implement Declarative Policy-as-Code: replace static spreadsheets with dynamic and automated governance rules that fail non-compliant code comments or automated builds natively before deployment ● Leverage Hardened Upstream Artifacts: many vendors take on the burden of maintaining secure images for both operating systems and OSS packages
The “key takeaways” 10 Establish a formalized, automated software ingestion policy before impending EU CRA mandates go into active enforcement Evaluate your organization's internal "Security Tax" by tracking the hours your developers spend on manual audit prep (and cost of disruptions)
Available Resources 11 CompOps: The Modern Blueprint for continuous compliance in the agentic era https://go.anchore.com/Modern-Blueprint-for-Continuous-Compliance.html Explore features of Anchore Enterprise https://anchore.com/platform Prevent Software Supply Chain Attacks with Anchore https://anchore.com/software-supply-chain-security Webinar: Automating compliance for CRA and beyond https://go.anchore.com/sboms-or-bust-automating-compliance.html
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