Guest Blog

SBOMs enable organizations to identify vulnerabilities, track open-source usage, and ensure compliance with numerous licensing obligations. Having a “single source of truth” for security and licensing information helps everyone. Let’s…

Let’s get it out of the way early: it’s not always clear how you can best plug into organizations like OpenSSF. That’s why I’m writing this guest blog post as…

It’s important to distinguish the term “source” (any source of a good or service) from the term “vendor” (a source who is paid and has a contractual relationship), especially when…

The use of SBOMs is becoming increasingly essential in managing software supply chains. The main consumption use case is for evaluating dependencies known-vulnerabilities risk, by mapping the dependencies listed in…

We’ve been discussing the creation of SBOMs for over ten years, but has it gotten us any closer to hardening our software development practices? SBOMs provide critical supply chain data,…

Security used to be something of an afterthought in software development. Security was clunky or inconvenient, often because it was a ‘bolt-on’. That has rapidly changed over the last two…

Answering even basic questions about software supply chain security has been surprisingly hard. For instance, how widespread are the different practices associated with software supply chain security? And do software…

A new report by the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative helps draw light on the question on what "open source as infrastructure" really means, and why it matters: Avoiding the…

The widespread use of software bill of materials (SBOMs) arguably depends on SBOM quality—that SBOMs contain sufficient and accurate information for the intended user to achieve their goals. But, until…