Patent pending TrueSBOM created by the application itself, always up-to-date

Codenotary, leaders in software supply chain protection, today announced TrueSBOM, a patent-pending, self-updating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for every application that is made possible by simply adding one line to the application source code.

With TrueSBOM, applications self-report their components so that the SBOM always remains up-to-date. By comparison, other SBOM approaches are a snapshot in time that shows the list of components when the application is created. That requires the SBOM to be maintained every time an update or patch is made to the application – or it becomes out-of-date making it completely useless, which happens all too often.

“When I buy a sandwich in the grocery store, all the ingredients are there, printed right on the label, which is great for people with allergies or other dietary restrictions. However, you have to trust the sandwich-maker to correctly label the sandwich with its true ingredients,” said Moshe Bar, co-founder and CEO, Codenotary. “What if every application had a label (the SBOM) automatically generated and always updated, even if the application is modified – no need for any sort of manual or automated intervention. Now, you can always trust the app’s SBOM. We think this is a game changer.”

TrueSBOM guarantees that the SBOM for an application is always a true reflection of the components of an application, even when it self-updates – and that the SBOM is not just a text file that is stored separately from the application, but rather it’s part of the application itself that export on request its own SBOM or list of ingredients. This is especially important for modern applications that self-update, where relying on an external SBOM generation at build-time would not pick up the new updates.

In addition, TrueSBOM allows the enrichment of the SBOM with vulnerability scanner results or trust and integrity information.

“When the log4j supply chain vulnerability was discovered in December 2021, the first question of every CIO was ‘how can I find all instances of this log4j library in the hundreds or thousands of applications in my business?’,” said Dennis Zimmer, co-founder and chief technology officer, Codenotary. “In other words, every organization wants to know which applications to trust and which ones to remediate immediately. TrueSBOM gives companies the security they’re looking for by keeping the list of contents in an app up-to-date at all times.”

“TrueSBOM gives us peace of mind to know the SBOM coming from our apps is always up-to-date and reflective of the real contents of our applications. The SBOMs are centrally stored, so I can get a single glance of the risk score of my apps, and find newly discovered vulnerabilities in seconds,” said a DevOps compliance manager at a leading U.S. investment bank.

A version of TrueSBOM is also available for serverless applications on AWS Lamda, Google Cloud Functions and Microsoft Azure Functions. Until now, SBOM generation for serverless apps was nearly impossible. TrueSBOM for serverless applications solves that issue.

Also, TrueSBOM for WebAssembly (WASM) provides the same self-updating SBOM capability so that WASM applications can always be verified for harmful contents.

TrueSBOM works with any software application – whether open source or proprietary code. It is available now and priced at $1,450 per application stack per year. TrueSBOM For Serverless and TrueSBOM for WebAssembly are priced at $450 per application per year. For additional information, go to https://codenotary.com/products/true-sbom. For more details on how TrueSBOM works, read the blog post.

About Codenotary

With hundreds of customers that includes top three banks in the U.S. and Europe, Codenotary brings easy to use trust and integrity into the software lifecycle by providing end-to-end cryptographically verifiable tracking and provenance for all artifacts, actions, and dependencies. Codenotary can be set up in minutes and can be fully integrated with modern CI/CD platforms. It is the only immutable and client-verifiable solution available that is capable of processing millions of transactions a second. With the Codenotary tamper-proof bill of materials, users can instantly identify untrusted components in their software builds. For more information, go to https://www.codenotary.com.

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