sbomqs and SBOM Policies: Turning Transparency Into Action

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. ...

September 23, 2025 · 8 min · 1687 words · Vivek Sahu

sbomqs Scoring Support for Bsi 1.1 and Bsi 2.0 in a Summarized Way

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. ...

September 23, 2025 · 5 min · 952 words · Vivek Sahu

What is an SBOM and Why is it Required?

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. ...

September 1, 2025 · 4 min · 789 words · Ritesh Noronha