Establishing trust in your software supply chain with an SBOM
By Mike McGuire, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Synopsys Just because the component you add to your application is secure today doesn’t mean that the application will still be secure tomorrow. That’s due in large part to the complexity of the software supply chain: the mix of proprietary and open source code, APIs and user interfaces, application behaviour, and deployment workflows that go into building software applications. For enterprises developing software, security issues at any point along this chain, at any time, can put your organisation and your customers at risk. How can you ensure your software supply chain is secure, and prove it? Codebase and supply chain security risk A flaw anywhere in the supply chain cascades out from the point of origin of the vulnerability or breach, sometimes all the way to the end user, and it has the potential to have devastating impacts. Because of its complexity and connectivity, the software supply chain presents an ever-expanding attack su...