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Open-source software is ubiquitous. A recent report found that 97% of applications use open-source code and 90% of companies across industries are applying or using it in their operations. The ...

SBOMs provide visibility into software supply chain risks and vulnerabilities SBOMs can be generated automatically, including for C/C++ SBOMs are useful for both compliance and security SBOMs improve ...

Along with the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks today, modern software applications have become increasingly complex and reliant on third-party components. Rarely are software applications ...

State and local governments depend on a tangled mix of commercial software, open-source components, cloud services and, increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI). That complexity makes it hard to ...

S4x24 – Miami – Energy giant Southern Company in the past year set out to inventory all of the hardware, software, and firmware in equipment running in one of its Mississippi substations in an effort ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released long-awaited updated guidance on the Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials, and is accepting public comments through Oct.

Python enhancement proposal would incorporate SBOM documents in Python packages as a way to improve dependency tracking and vulnerability analysis. Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be ...

A huge body of research and engineering efforts have been dedicated to extract and utilize software bill of materials (SBOM) due to the requirement of supply chain security. Existing approaches ...

The U.S. Army issued a software bill of materials (SBOM) policy on Aug. 16, announced Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Army's Acquisition, Logistics and Technology ...