The SolarWinds Problem, Solved

Remember the SolarWinds hack? The Log4j vulnerability? These attacks exploited a fundamental weakness in modern software: the supply chain. Chainguard was founded specifically to fix this.

Co-founded by Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas, and Kim Lewandowski — the team behind Google's Sigstore and SLSA security frameworks — Chainguard provides hardened, verifiable, production-ready builds of the open-source components that developers and AI systems depend on.

Factory 2.0 and AI Agent Security

In 2026, Chainguard unveiled Factory 2.0, a next-generation platform that replaces traditional build automation with agentic reconciliation bots for continuous security hardening. They also launched Chainguard Agent Skills — a catalog of continuously hardened, third-party AI agent skills that let developers securely plug capabilities into AI agents. As AI agents become more autonomous, ensuring the security of their tool integrations becomes critical, and Chainguard is positioning itself as the trust layer.