Understand the agentic supply chain: 5 things CIOs must know

Software supply chain risk used to have a fairly contained definition: open-source packages, build pipelines, and the occasional compromised maintainer account. An agent assembles capability at runtime, pulling in models, MCP servers, libraries, code, tools, skills, and plugins, then acts on its findings. Agents operate at machine speed in parallelized workflows at speed and volume far greater than those of human-paced developers.