According to a recent LinkedIn post from Cloudsmith, the company is highlighting performance and coverage limitations in traditional vulnerability scanners as organizations face an average of 234 newly published CVEs per day. The post notes that scheduled or manual scans, whose duration scales with both package counts and accumulated advisories, can lag behind emerging threats and impose significant resource demands.
The post suggests that Cloudsmith is promoting a “matching” approach that relies on lightweight lookups rather than full scans, enabling near real-time alignment with new security advisories. For investors, this emphasis on continuous detection and reduced exposure windows indicates a product positioning aimed at security-conscious enterprises, which could support differentiation in the software supply chain security market and potentially drive higher-value, recurring revenue opportunities.