What’s behind SBOM skepticism? One word: Fear

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. 

So what is there to complain about? A lot, as it turns out. …

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