Poking around in the Dark: Why a Shared Understanding of Components Matters

By listing the components included in an application, Software Bills of Materials SBOMs are intended to support the timely identification of vulnerable components and ensure the security of the software supply chain. However, we question the underlying assumption that there is agreement on the...

A Practical Solution to Systematically Monitor Inconsistencies in SBOM-Based Vulnerability Scanners

Software Bill of Materials SBOM provides new opportunities for automated vulnerability identification in software products. While the industry is adopting SBOM-based Vulnerability Scanning SVS to identify vulnerabilities, we increasingly observe inconsistencies and unexpected behavior, that resul...

CISA Releases Two SBOM Documents

Today, CISA released two community-drafted documents around Software Bill of Materials SBOM: Types of SBOM documents and Minimum Requirements for Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange VEX. The Types of SBOM document summarizes common types of SBOMs that tools may create in the industry today, alo...

CISA and CESER Releases Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Sharing Lifecycle Report

CISA and the U.S. Department of Energy DOE Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response CESER have released the SBOM Sharing Lifecycle Report to the cybersecurity and supply chain community. The purpose of this report is to enumerate and describe the different parties and phases of the...