Strengthening License Compliance and Software Security with SBOM Adoption: A Definitive SBOM Guide for Enterprises
Ibrahim Haddad · 2024
Software security remains a top priority for every enterprise, industry, and government around the world. A fundamental step in securing a software supply chain is the ability to certify that the different software components being used are secure, but this can be challenging to adequately address. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is an inventory of the entire constituent software components within a system that is used to enhance transparency, license compliance, and security within software supply chains. This report gives an overview of the history of SBOMs, the legislative context that surrounds them, and the work that the Linux Foundation's SPDX project has done to standardize this critical tool.