Compliance

Docket Number: CISA-2025-0007 Comment Deadline: October 3, 2025 Submission Portal: regulations.gov Executive Summary Interlynk appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback on CISA’s proposed “2025 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).” As developers of open-source SBOM quality and management tools, we bring a unique perspective grounded in practical implementation experience across diverse enterprise environments. Through our work on sbomqs (SBOM Quality Score) and sbomasm (SBOM Assembler), we have analyzed millions of SBOMs from various industries and toolchains, giving us deep insights into the real-world challenges of SBOM creation, validation, and consumption. Our tools help organizations assess SBOM completeness, manage multi-format SBOMs, and ensure compliance with evolving standards—experience that directly informs our response to these proposed minimum elements. ...

Hey SBOM enthusiasts 👋 An SBOM isn’t just a list of components anymore — it has detailed information of your software, which contains hundreds of components. And that’s what gives you the transparency of each and every component: such as, who authored it, who supplies it, under what license it’s released, and even what known vulnerabilities it carries. In other words, it’s not just an inventory — it’s visibility into the very DNA of your software. ...

Hey SBOM enthusiasts 👋, we all know by now — SBOMs aren’t optional anymore. They’ve become a standard part of the software supply chain, and there’s a lot you can do with them: augmenting, enriching, editing, validating… the list keeps growing. But here’s the thing — while adding and improving data in SBOMs gets most of the attention, sometimes the real power comes from removing what you don’t need. Maybe it’s for privacy, maybe for cleanup, maybe to keep your SBOM lean before sharing it. ...

Hey SBOM community, Love to see you back here learning something new. If you’re working with SBOMs, you probably know that generating SBOM is just a first step. What you get after generating SBOM is just a raw SBOM ? And the raw SBOM is incomplete, inaccurate sometime and most importantly not even comply with NTIA minimum element according to this research whitepaper. And that’s exactly where your involvement comes to enrich the SBOM, augument the SBOM, etc to make a better quality SBOM with completeness, accuracy and enriched data. At the end the real power of SBOM lies within itself i.e data. Because at the end these SBOM will be feeded to SBOM platform which perform complete analysis of the SBOM. The more complete and correct the data is, the more it helps you understand and reduce risk in your software supply chain. ...

Hey there 👋 SBOM practitioners, compliance engineers, and open-source watchers! If you’ve been working with SBOMs lately—whether you’re producing them or consuming them—you’ve probably noticed how quickly they’ve gone from “nice to have” to absolutely essential. I hope now your getting comfortable on working with SBOMs and familiar with software supply chain security terminologies. We all are well-known about the wake-up call on SBOMs, First one was SolarWinds attack(and later on log4j attack) and US Executive Order 14028 by Biden Govt. And since then, the communities started stepping into this complex world wired with complex software( in form of dependencies) to secure software supply chain security from software supply chain attacks. Next step towards it taken by big organization like OpenSSF and countries by showing up their interest towards it, which resulted into various SBOM guidelines, SBOM related tools, SBOM compliances, SBOM platforms, SCA tools, etc were born. ...

Introduction In today’s interconnected software ecosystem, applications are rarely built from scratch. Modern software is assembled from hundreds or even thousands of components - open source libraries, proprietary modules, and third-party services. This complexity creates a critical challenge: how do we know what’s actually inside our software? Enter the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) - a comprehensive inventory that provides transparency into software components and their relationships. What is an SBOM? A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a formal, machine-readable inventory of all components, libraries, and modules that make up a software application. Think of it as a detailed ingredient list for software - just as food products list their ingredients and nutritional information, an SBOM lists all the software components and their dependencies. ...