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Over the past few years, Platform Engineering has taken off as more and more as enterprise organisations adopt the practice of creating a centralised, self-service interface for developers to access the tools they need in order for them to do the job they were meant to do: build amazing software. At the heart of every Golden Path lies the ability to reliably produce, store, and consume build artifacts, from container images to internal libraries.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from years of working with innovators across industries, it’s this: Progress happens when people come together—not just to showcase, but to share, ask questions, challenge one another, push both themselves and the industry to the next level, and co-create.

Improper artifact integrity validation is a critical vulnerability in CI/CD pipelines characterised by insufficient mechanisms to cryptographically verify the authenticity and integrity of code and build artifacts traversing the pipeline. When these controls are weak or absent, adversaries with access to any pipeline stage can inject malicious or tampered artifacts that appear legitimate, enabling undetected propagation through the pipeline and eventual deployment into production environments.

The Cloudsmith 2025 Artifact Management Report offers timely insights into how engineering and DevOps teams are evolving their approach to software artifact management and software supply chain security. With supply chain attacks on the rise and Generative AI reshaping development practices, teams are reevaluating how they manage, secure, and scale their artifact repository infrastructure.

The JFrog Security Research team has recently discovered and disclosed CVE-2025-6514 – a critical (CVSS 9.6) security vulnerability in the mcp-remote project – a popular tool used by Model Context Protocol clients. The vulnerability allows attackers to trigger arbitrary OS command execution on the machine running mcp-remote when it initiates a connection to an untrusted MCP server, posing a significant risk to users – a full system compromise.

Atlassian’s 2025 State of DevEx Survey reveals a paradox: AI is saving developers time, but they’re still losing time to organizational inefficiencies.

The enterprise artifact management market - which has belonged for a while to JFrog and Sonatype - is now truly up for grabs. Cloudsmith was built on the core principle that cloud-native architecture matters. So does simplicity in design and workflow. Partnerships matter, too. We’ve built a comprehensive platform that controls and secures every artifact as it’s built, scanned, signed, stored, and shipped across the software supply chain.