ActiveState’s Dana Crane, Product Marketing Manager and Senior Product Strategist, Jeff Rouse explain why Python 2 poses a hidden but increasing security risk even two years after End of Life in non-production environments due to the dramatic rise in software supply chain attacks. It’s no longer a matter of IF you’ll get hacked, but when.

ActiveState has been providing Python 2 support to organizations since EOL. Our customers receive timely updates to security issues so they can continue to safely run their Python 2 applications, services, and systems.

We can help your organization significantly reduce your Python 2 overhead while continuing to drive business value.

Get more information about our Python 2 support here.

Have questions? Contact the Sales team to discuss your Python 2 use case and how we can help.

Useful Resources:

• The Python 2 Threat In Your Supply Chain Is Real
• Critical Python 3 Vulnerability Affects Python 2
• Software Supply Chain Security Checklist For Enterprises 
• Python 2.7: Extended Support Past EOL
• Python 2 Security Vulnerability Updates

New to the ActiveState Platform? At ActiveState, we use our Platform to build not only our popular open source language distributions but also custom environments for our enterprise customers (i.e. language builds containing just the packages their application requires). All environments created with the ActiveState Platform are built from source, assessed for security vulnerabilities (CVEs), and can be updated in a timely manner.

Coders can use the Platform for free to build a Python, Perl, or Tcl environment for their project. Enterprise decision-makers can find a suitable tier from our Platform Pricing options or contact Sales.