SBOM generation for cloud workloads hinges on operating contracts, not just tools
The article argues that the costly failure in SBOM generation for modern cloud workloads is usually a missing operating contract rather than a missing tool. It stresses defining the owner, consumer, support boundary, change policy, and recovery objective before choosing implementation details. Recommended measures include control coverage, policy exceptions, credential lifetime, remediation latency, and provenance verification, with short-lived identity and signed provenance enforced as code. The piece advises rolling out controls to one representative service first, treating exceptions as expiring decisions, and keeping a small mandatory safety core around replaceable choices. It also warns against ceremonial approval gates and untested reference architectures.
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