How & Why NIST is Driving SBOM Evolution
Understanding the Requirement for Software Bills of Material (SBOM) in Executive Order 14028The NIST-published guidance for complying with the Cybersecurity Executive Order, asks makers of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and government off-the-shelf (GOTS) software to: “Collect, maintain, and share provenance data for all components and other dependencies of each software release (e.g., in a Software Bill of Materials [SBOM]).” In short, every software supplier to federal agencies now has two deliverables - the software and a Software Bill of Materials.
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- The National Institute of Standards (NIST) role in the EO
- Why the EO includes SBOM requirements
- The evolution and the future of SBOM