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by boricj 669 days ago
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.
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> 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?