Oligo Wins SC Award for Best Supply Chain Security Solution

We’re thrilled to announce that the Oligo Application Defense Platform has been named 2024’s Best Supply Chain Security Solution by SC Magazine in its annual SC Awards. This was the first year that the Best Supply Chain Security Solution category has been awarded, making Oligo the first-ever winner.

“Oligo is honored to be recognized as a winner by SC Magazine,” said Czerninski. “We believe this new award category represents a fundamental shift in how security views the supply chain, and a recognition that supply chain risks deserve a comprehensive, holistic solution.”

The Oligo Platform addresses the crucial last link in the software supply chain: applications at runtime. Components are added and changed in every step of the software development lifecycle, creating supply chain complexity and opportunities for exploitable vulnerabilities to be introduced.
Using Oligo, organizations can see every component of every application they build, buy, or use—allowing them to identify supply chain compromises even in third-party commercial applications sourced from vendors.

Third-party commercial applications that organizations use to develop, build, test, and deploy their software represent significant supply chain risk. Most application security solutions, though, require source code—which means they’re limited to identifying risks only in open-source dependencies.

According to Czerninski, supply chain threats are becoming more complex and harder to detect. “A good example is the XZ Utils backdoor, which was placed by a sophisticated threat actor who spent years preparing to insert the malicious payload,” he said. “While other solutions couldn’t detect exploitation of this backdoor, we saw that our platform could identify it rapidly—without changing any of our detection rules.”

In the coming days and weeks, we’ll take a look at how the Oligo Application Defense Platform can be used to provide comprehensive supply chain security, with coverage that other tools on the market can’t match.

Want to secure your supply chain the Oligo way? Contact us to learn more.