JFrog announced the global winners of its inaugural Software Supply Chain Excellence Awards, nine honorees across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, including Ford, NVIDIA, S&P Global, Rakuten Symphony, Singapore Airlines, and TSB Bank. The honorees span three categories: Unified Platform, Trusted AI Adoption, and Software Supply Chain Security. A cross-functional panel of industry leaders and experts judged entries on strength of vision and quality of metrics. The Convergence Award recognizes teams that moved from fragmented tools to a single governed platform shared by developers and security teams, while the Guardian Award honors teams that stop threats at the point of entry. JFrog said it identified over 900 malicious AI agent skills in the past year carrying high-impact payloads.
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