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Research Brief: The Importance of SBOMs to Inventory Software Components for Software Supply Chain Security
Research Brief
Aug 23, 2024
by
Melinda Marks, Emily Marsh, Enterprise Strategy Group Research
As organizations across industries seek to gain a competitive advantage by efficiently delivering feature-rich applications to their customers, employees, and partners, their developers increasingly leverage third-party and open source code components. This saves time from having to build custom code but poses challenges for security teams, who need to know the inventories of their applications—including all the software components, dependencies, and metadata in the applications—to effectively manage risk and rapidly respond to threats or attacks. As attacks have often targeted the software supply chain, regulations increasingly call for a software bill of materials (SBOM) to proactively mitigate software supply chain risk. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group examined how organizations are using SBOMs and how they can best use SBOMs for effective software supply chain security.
