Stephen Chin is no stranger to having big ideas and implementing them to help the developer community. In the last twenty years he’s been involved in building open source IDEs, bootstrapping rich client libraries, maintaining JVM languages, and cultivating relationships with developers that do the same.

There’s no question the volume, sophistication and severity of software supply chain attacks has increased in the last year. In recent months the JFrog Security Research team tracked nearly 20 different open source software supply chain attacks – two of which were zero day threats.

It has officially been one year since the release of the Biden administration’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity, which outlines security requirements for software vendors selling software to the U.S. government. These requirements include security testing in the development process and a software bill of materials for the open-source libraries in use so that known vulnerabilities are disclosed and able to be tracked in the future, among other things.