Defence

SBOM

Software bill of materials

An ingredient list of the components inside a piece of software.

When a library such as OpenSSL or Log4j has a serious flaw, an SBOM lets you find which of your products include it without guessing. Regulators increasingly ask vendors to provide one.

AttackSupply-chain attackCompromising a vendor, library or update so the attack reaches all of its customers at once.
TechnologyOpenSSLThe open-source library that much of the internet uses to speak TLS and do cryptography.

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