What's behind SBOM skepticism? One word: Fear
ReversingLabs, Wednesday, May 10,2023
In this ConversingLabs Cafe interview, Josh Corman, founder of I Am The Cavalry, talks about what's behind industry skepticism around software bills of materials.
If there's a poster child for the increased focus and attention on the security of software supply chains, it is the SBOM, or software bill of materials. SBOMs are a critical component for operationalizing software supply chain security. Practically, SBOMs act like a list of ingredients for the software that makes up applications: calling out otherwise invisible dependencies on proprietary, open source and licensed, commercial libraries.