Key Takeaways

• Access sprawl is the real exposure
  ‍Organizations have accumulated massive access debt across the cloud. 96% of granted permissions go unused, and every one of those dead paths is still a way in.
• AI broke the math
  Frontier models like Claude Mythos shrink time-to-exploit to basically zero, and autonomous AI agents now run loose inside production, acting on their own.
• Surfacing findings doesn't stop breaches
  The backlog grows faster than any team can work through it, with attackers exploiting flaws the same speed your dashboard refreshes.
• Act eliminates risk at the source
  Instead of another layer that finds and ranks the same problems, Act removes unnecessary access and enforces deterministic boundaries, so the risk stops being exploitable.

AI is transforming software development—but it’s also reshaping the software supply chain in ways most security programs aren’t prepared for.
This practical cheat sheet breaks down the biggest AI supply chain risks, how attackers exploit them, and the best practices security teams can use to reduce exposure across models, data, pipelines, and AI-powered tooling.