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Software supply chain attacks have become a significant threat as software development increasingly relies on contributions from multiple, often unverified sources. The code from unverified sources does not pose a threat until it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Aman Sharma , Martin Wittlinger , Benoit Baudry , Martin Monperrus

Background. The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable list of all the software dependencies included in a software. SBOM emerged as way to assist securing the software supply chain. However, despite mandates from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Oleksii Novikov , Davide Fucci , Oleksandr Adamov , Daniel Mendez

Supply chain security is extremely important for modern applications running at scale in the cloud. In fact, they involve a large number of heterogeneous microservices that also include third-party software. As a result, security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jacopo Bufalino , Mario Di Francesco , Agathe Blaise , Stefano Secci

A Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) is a detailed inventory of all components, libraries, and modules in a software artifact, providing traceability throughout the software supply chain. With the increasing popularity of JavaScript in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Leo Song , Steven H. H. Ding , Yuan Tian , Li Tao Li , Philippe Charland , Andrew Walenstein

Bills of materials (BOMs) are quickly becoming an effective tool for managing supply chain risk. As more BOMs enter circulation, the ability to compare them will be crucial to understanding how products differ and in managing BOMs from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Lucas Tate , Rebecca Jones , Doug Dennis , Tatyana Benko , Jody Askren

The Software Supply Chain (SSC) security is a critical concern for both users and developers. Recent incidents, like the SolarWinds Orion compromise, proved the widespread impact resulting from the distribution of compromised software. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Giacomo Benedetti , Serena Cofano , Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti

Modern software engineering increasingly relies on open, community-driven standards, yet how such standards are created in fast-evolving domains like AI-powered systems remains underexplored. This paper presents a detailed experience report…

Modern digital ecosystems, spanning software, hardware, learning models, datasets, and cryptographic products, continue to grow in complexity, making it difficult for organizations to understand and manage component dependencies. Bills of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuai Zhang , Minzhao Lyu , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a key component for the transparency of software supply chain; it is a structured inventory of the components, dependencies, and associated metadata of a software artifact. However, an SBOM often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Gianpietro Castiglione , Shahriar Ebrahimi , Narges Khakpour

Ensuring the security of software supply chains requires reliable identification of upstream dependencies. We present the Automatic Bill of Materials, or ABOM, a technique for embedding dependency metadata in binaries at compile time.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Nicholas Boucher , Ross Anderson

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) provides transparency by documenting software component metadata and dependencies. However, SBOM adoption depends on tool ecosystems. With two dominant formats: SPDX and CycloneDX - the ecosystems vary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Abdul Ali Bangash , Tongxu Ge , Zhimin Zhao , Arshdeep Singh , Zitao Wang , Bram Adams

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) have become a regulatory requirement for improving software supply chain security and trust by means of transparency regarding components that make up software artifacts. However, enterprise and regulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Eman Abu Ishgair , Chinenye Okafor , Marcela S. Melara , Santiago Torres-Arias

Recent years have shown increased cyber attacks targeting less secure elements in the software supply chain and causing fatal damage to businesses and organizations. Past well-known examples of software supply chain attacks are the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Trevor Dunlap , Yasemin Acar , Michel Cucker , William Enck , Alexandros Kapravelos , Christian Kastner , Laurie Williams

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence, highlighted by large-scale generative models like GPT-4, ensuring the traceability, verifiability, and reproducibility of datasets throughout their lifecycle is paramount for research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yue Liu , Dawen Zhang , Boming Xia , Julia Anticev , Tunde Adebayo , Zhenchang Xing , Moses Machao

Modern networked systems rely on complex software stacks, which often conceal vulnerabilities arising from intricate interdependencies. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is effective for identifying dependencies and mitigating security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Vadim Safronov , Ionut Bostan , Nicholas Allott , Andrew Martin

Software supply chain security compromises often stem from cascaded interactions of vulnerabilities, for example, between multiple vulnerable components. Yet, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)-based pipelines for security analysis typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Laura Baird , Armin Moin

Privacy regulations mandate that developers must provide authentic and comprehensive privacy notices, e.g., privacy policies or labels, to inform users of their apps' privacy practices. However, due to a lack of knowledge of privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhen Tao , Shidong Pan , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoyu Sun , Omar Haggag , John Grundy , Jingjie Li , Liming Zhu

Software supply chain attacks, which exploit the build process or artifacts used in the process of building a software product, are increasingly of concern. To combat these attacks, one must be able to check that every artifact that a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Bharathi Seshadri , Yongkui Han , Chris Olson , David Pollak , Vojislav Tomasevic

Most of the current software security analysis tools assess vulnerabilities in isolation. However, sophisticated software supply chain security threats often stem from cascaded vulnerability and security weakness chains that span dependent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Laura Baird , Armin Moin

Neural networks have become integral to many fields due to their exceptional performance. The open-source community has witnessed a rapid influx of neural network (NN) repositories with fast-paced iterations, making it crucial for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xiaoning Ren , Yuhang Ye , Xiongfei Wu , Yueming Wu , Yinxing Xue