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by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t 671 days ago
CycloneDX tools offer packages for each and every programming language. [1]

The dependency track project accumulates all dependency vulnerabilities in a dashboard. [2]

Container SBOMs can be generated with syft and grype [3] [4]

[1] https://github.com/CycloneDX

[2] https://github.com/DependencyTrack

[3] https://github.com/anchore/syft

[4] https://github.com/anchore/grype

1 comments

SBOMs can't flag vulnerable dependencies until after those are publicly known. Traceability is useful when mitigating a crisis, but it won't prevent one.
> Traceability is useful when mitigating a crisis, but it won't prevent one.

So how do you prevent a crisis then without knowing what your software stack has as dependencies?