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What Is an SBOM & Why Do You Need One?

Before we jump into definitions, let’s quickly level set on how we got here. Over the last few years, the way we build software has changed drastically. With the increasing need to move faster and release more frequently, organizations are opting to get rid of monolithic architectures and adopt a microservices architecture for greater agility, resiliency, and efficiency.

SBOM production and secure distribution - Jitsuin and Meterian integration makes it easy.

Jitsuin met Meterian in the NCSC Cyber Runway Accelerator launched in November 2021. What we quickly realized is that automated generation and permissioned sharing of SBOMs would save valuable time in vulnerability discovery and mitigation. So we moved fast to fix things! The integration between Meterian’s Boost Open-Source Software Scanner (BOSS) and Jitsuin’s RKVST SBOM Hub enables software publishers to automatically generate, store and distribute SBOMs in public or private.

15 Ways to Make SBOM Distribution Easy

The whole point of an SBOM is lost if you keep it a secret. Here we reveal our secrets of the ideal SBOM exchange. Let us know if we’ve missed anything in RKVST SBOM Hub. SBOMs are made for sharing and are the gifts that keep on giving, but only if they get to the right place at the right time to drive the right critical decision. The first critical decision, or moment of truth, is whether to buy a vendor’s product.

SBOMs are the gifts that keep on giving.

The timing of CISA’s SBOM-a-rama today and tomorrow coincides with the fallout from the “vulnerability of the decade” gifting the industry with yet another example of why scaling and operationalizing the widespread use of SBOMs is so vital. Log4Shell is a 10/10 vulnerability in a hugely popular Java logging library – Log4j – used in virtually every online service. For two decades it was considered harmless, that is until last week when somebody found it wasn’t.

SBOM Sharing Should be Easy. Now it is!

Today we’re pleased to announce the RKVST SBOM Hub – the first place to find and fetch SBOMs. RKVST SBOM Hub is a secure, immutable, any-to-any framework that integrates into both publisher and subscriber workflows to massively simplify the effective sharing of SBOMs to help all parties comply with the Executive Order. Try it out for yourself here.