In an escalation of a trend we have seen for many years, developers are increasingly being targeted by attackers as a way to poison the software supply chain and take control of an organization. This year at DefCon and BlackHat-the world's largest security and hacking conferences-many talks focused on how attackers are targeting these systems. The reality is that in today's world if you can control an organization's source code, you can control and disrupt multiple elements of the operation. Therefore this article doesn’t just affect the start-ups with ambitions to change the IT landscape, it affects all organizations. It doesn’t matter much if you are building the latest in cloud computing services or manufacturing paint, you most likely have a team of software engineers building proprietary systems and at the very least you rely heavily on commercial software to keep your operation afloat. Most organizations today are software development companies.
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