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The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) has emerged as a promising solution, providing a machine-readable inventory of software components used, thus bolstering supply chain security. This paper presents an extensive study concerning the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Tingting Bi , Boming Xia , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) are increasingly regarded as essential tools for securing software supply chains (SSCs), yet their real-world use and adoption barriers remain poorly understood. This systematic literature review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Eric O'Donoghue , Yvette Hastings , Ernesto Ortiz , A. Redempta Manzi Muneza

Modern software applications heavily rely on diverse third-party components, libraries, and frameworks sourced from various vendors and open source repositories, presenting a complex challenge for securing the software supply chain. To…

The rapid growth of software supply chain attacks has attracted considerable attention to software bill of materials (SBOM). SBOMs are a crucial building block to ensure the transparency of software supply chains that helps improve software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Boming Xia , Tingting Bi , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a critical tool for securing the software supply chain (SSC), but its practical utility is undermined by inaccuracies in both its generation and its application in vulnerability scanning. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Li Zhou , Marc Dacier , Charalambos Konstantinou

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

The SolarWinds attack, which exploited weaknesses in a software update mechanism, highlights the critical need for organizations to have better visibility into their software dependencies and potential vulnerabilities associated with them.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Can Ozkan , Xinhai Zou , Dave Singelee

Software bills of materials (SBOM) promise to become the backbone of software supply chain hardening. We deep-dive into 6 tools and the accuracy of the SBOMs they produce for complex open-source Java projects. Our novel insights reveal some…

The robustness of critical infrastructure systems is contingent upon the integrity and transparency of their software supply chains. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is pivotal in this regard, offering an exhaustive inventory of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Boming Xia , Dawen Zhang , Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Zhenchang Xing , Liming Zhu

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable artifact that systematically organizes software information, enhancing supply chain transparency and security. To facilitate the exchange and utilization of SBOMs, organizations such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chengjie Wang , Jingzheng Wu , Hao Lyu , Xiang Ling , Tianyue Luo , Yanjun Wu , Chen Zhao

It is becoming increasingly important in the software industry, especially with the growing complexity of software ecosystems and the emphasis on security and compliance for manufacturers to inventory software used on their systems. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Devin Pereira , Christopher Molloy , Sudipta Acharya , Steven H. H. Ding

Software Bills of Material (SBOMs) have emerged as an important technology for vulnerability management amid rising supply-chain attacks. They represent component relationships within a software product and support software composition…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shawn Rasheed , Max McPhee , Lisa Patterson , Stephen MacDonell , Jens Dietrich

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is becoming an increasingly important tool in regulatory and technical spaces to introduce more transparency and security into a project's software supply chain. Artificial intelligence (AI) projects face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Karen Bennet , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Arthit Suriyawongkul , Kate Stewart

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

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

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

Software Bills of Material (SBOMs) are becoming a consolidated, often enforced by governmental regulations, way to describe software composition. However, based on recent studies, SBOMs suffer from limited support for their consumption and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Davide Fucci , Massimiliano Di Penta , Simone Romano , Giuseppe Scanniello

The software supply chain involves a multitude of tools and processes that enable software developers to write, build, and ship applications. Recently, security compromises of tools or processes has led to a surge in proposals to address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Marcela S. Melara , Mic Bowman

Software Bills of Material (SBOMs), which improve transparency by listing the components constituting software, are a key countermeasure to the mounting problem of Software Supply Chain attacks. SBOM generation tools take project source…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Serena Cofano , Giacomo Benedetti , Matteo Dell'Amico

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) provides new opportunities for automated vulnerability identification in software products. While the industry is adopting SBOM-based Vulnerability Scanning (SVS) to identify vulnerabilities, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Martin Rosso , Muhammad Asad Jahangir Jaffar , Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti
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