Security News > 2024 > April > Protobom: Open-source software supply chain tool

Protobom is an open-source software supply chain tool that enables all organizations, including system administrators and software development communities, to read and generate Software Bill of Materials, file data, and translate this data across standard industry SBOM formats.

The key to strengthening software security and software supply chain risk management is an SBOM, which is a nested, formatted inventory that lists the software's components, including the supply chain relationships of various open-source and commercial components used in building software.

Understanding the software supply chain, obtaining an SBOM, and using it to analyze known vulnerabilities is crucial for managing cybersecurity risk.

Protobom aims to mitigate this issue by offering a format-neutral data layer on top of the standards that lets applications work seamlessly with any SBOM. Protobom.

Protobom can be integrated into both commercial and open-source applications, which will promote SBOM adoption and make SBOM creation and consumption easier and cheaper.

Protobom tooling can access, read, and translate SBOMs in various data formats, thus providing seamless interoperability.

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