Why SBOMs aren’t the silver bullet they’re portrayed as

A Software Bill of Materials, often shortened to the acronym SBOM, is a formal, machine-readable inventory of software components and dependencies, information about those components, and their hierarchical relationships. To put it in everyday language, think of it as a recipe that lays out all the ingredients that go into a software. In this Help Net Security video, Julie Klein, Director, Global Public Policy at Akamai Technologies, discusses her take on SBOMs. Julie believes that: … More →

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