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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…

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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

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…

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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…

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

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

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is becoming an essential tool for effective software dependency management. An SBOM is a list of components used in software, including details such as component names, versions, and licenses. Using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Rio Kishimoto , Tetsuya Kanda , Yuki Manabe , Katsuro Inoue , Shi Qiu , Yoshiki Higo

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 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

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

Developers gain productivity by reusing readily available Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components. Such practices also bring some difficulties, such as managing licensing, components and related security. One approach to handle…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Luıs Soeiro , Thomas Robert , Stefano Zacchiroli

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

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

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) have emerged as tools to facilitate the management of software dependencies, vulnerabilities, licenses, and the supply chain. While significant effort has been devoted to increasing SBOM awareness and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Trevor Stalnaker , Nathan Wintersgill , Oscar Chaparro , Massimiliano Di Penta , Daniel M German , Denys Poshyvanyk

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

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) are essential to ensure the transparency and integrity of the software supply chain. There is a growing body of work that investigates the accuracy of SBOM generation tools and the challenges for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yogya Gamage , Nadia Gonzalez Fernandez , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry

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

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 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

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…

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