For decades, federal programs operating in high-security or classified domains have relied on air-gapped environments as a primary line of defense. The simple logic being that if networks are physically isolated from the public internet, they can’t be attacked from the outside. But, in today’s evolving cybersecurity landscape, this assumption of safety through isolation no longer holds.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from 2024 Sonatype Blog authored by Tom Tapley. Read the original post at: https://www.sonatype.com/blog/offline-not-off-guard-countering-software-supply-chain-threats-in-high-security-environments