Customers Are Starting to Ask What Software Is Built From
In May 2021, a US executive order on cybersecurity called for software sold to the federal government to come with a software bill of materials. The government followed two months later by publishing minimum elements such a list should include. The inventory is a machine-readable record of each component in a product, with names, versions and origins, so buyers can quickly check whether a newly disclosed vulnerability affects them. The practice is spreading beyond government into ordinary contracts, and standard formats like SPDX and CycloneDX are now supported by many common build and scanning tools. As a result, engineers are being pushed toward keeping dependencies justified, removing unused ones, and keeping versions current.
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