Companies began adopting cloud native technologies less than a decade ago in an effort to become more flexible and efficient. As my co-founder Daniel Nurmi and I thought about the potential implications of that shift, we realized that significant security and compliance challenges would arise. In 2016, that insight led us to create Anchore, an SBOM-powered (software bills of materials) software composition analysis platform that simplifies software supply chain management by identifying security threats early on in the software development lifecycle.