Compliance

Overview This is the second part of our SBOM compliances series. In the previous post, we discussed NTIA Minimum Elements, their motivation, and how they define a baseline for SBOM transparency. In this post, we will discuss about Framing Software Component Transparency (FSCT), why it came into existence, the real-world gaps it addresses, and how it shifts the focus from minimum presence to meaningful transparency. Let’s go. Context In order to manage risk, cost or security, an organization first need to understand what software is made up of, what all components are being used, and how they depend on each other. In the modern software world, systems are complex because they rely on dynamic supply chains i.e. consuming open-source libraries, commercial software, and third parties dependencies maintained across the world. Without clear visibility into these dependencies(or supply chain), organizations are forced to rely on assumptions rather than facts. That’s why NTIA Minimum Elements came in and introduced required set of minimum SBOM fields to ensure the basic information about each consumed component is present or declared, and with this it laids the foundation of establishing a transparency across software supply chains. ...

In this blog, we’ll be discussing about NTIA minimum element SBOM Compliance. This blog is the first part of an SBOM compliance series. The series is about covering all different SBOM compliances framework one by one and understand why they exist and what they actually expect from an SBOM and lastly to check whether your SBOM is compliant or not. Before diving into NTIA minimum element compliance specifically, let’s understand the core of SBOM: ...

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. ...

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, ...

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. ...