As applications grow more complex, they incorporate many third-party libraries and open-source components, often making it challenging to fully understand and manage the security risks they introduce. To address these concerns, application security engineers are increasingly turning to tools that provide greater visibility and control over software components.

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We’re excited to announce that SBOMs (software bill of materials) generated by Snyk's tools will include license information! This new capability is part of our ongoing efforts in our Software Supply Chain Security solution. The developer-first tools in the solution help you gain a better understanding of your app’s supply chain, identify potential risks, and take the necessary steps to get ahead of them.

As Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), become increasingly necessary and in some cases, required by private companies and governments globally, they are meant to provide transparency and help organizations understand what is in their software. But if SBOMs are so helpful, how come nobody knows what to do with them?

We’re excited to announce the Policy SBOM feature is now generally available to all Styra DAS customers, giving enterprises transparency and traceability into deployed authorization policies. Just like a software bill of materials (SBOM) is an inventory of the components and dependencies in a software application, a Policy SBOM is an inventory of the policy modules, including their sources, versions, and dependencies, within an Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy bundle.

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is essentially an inventory of the components used to build a software artifact, such as an application. While the concept of tracking an application’s components is not new, its importance has grown in recent years due to the rising threat of software supply chain attacks. One significant example is the SolarWinds attack, which highlighted how threat actors are increasingly targeting vulnerabilities in software components during the delivery process.