# Securing Your Supply Chain: How Al/ML Tools are Changing the Game

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In this webinar, Sonatype experts examine how the growing ecosystem around AI development — particularly model-sharing platforms like Hugging Face — has created new opportunities for malicious code, tampered models, and other non-traditional threats to enter development pipelines. Explore how these risks emerge and what they mean for teams building AI-powered applications.

Tim Vrablik, Meredith Eisen

Aug 27 2025 | 33 mins

Uncover Hidden Risks in Your Software Supply Chain—Before They Strike.

The rapid adoption of AI/ML is revolutionizing innovation, but it’s also creating new, often overlooked vulnerabilities. Malicious actors are exploiting pre-trained models, shadow dependencies, and non-code artifacts to infiltrate even the most robust software supply chains. Are you prepared to defend against these emerging threats?

Join Sonatype’s expert-led webinar to explore how the explosive growth of AI tools like Hugging Face has introduced a new frontier for open-source risk.

## What You’ll Learn:
1) Identify Vulnerabilities – How hidden malware in pre-trained models and dependencies can derail your software ecosystem.
2) Real-World Lessons – See how actual breaches have unfolded and what they teach us about evolving threats.
3) Practical Solutions – Discover how Sonatype’s Repository Firewall and advanced malware research are redefining risk mitigation in AI/ML supply chains.

## Featured Speakers

### Tim Vrablik
Product Marketing Manager, Sonatype

### Meredith Eisen
Director, Product Management