Commerce’s Friedman says ‘champions’ can promote software bill of materials, avoiding regulation

LAS VEGAS. Draft documents are coming in weeks from a Commerce Department-led “software bill of materials” initiative, according to project leader Allan Friedman, who says this “why and how” stage should move quickly into a “turn-key” phase of raising awareness and actually putting the SBOM concept into practice.

The public-private initiative’s four working groups will discuss “baseline” SBOM drafts at a Sept. 5 meeting in Washington, DC, an important milestone, Friedman noted in a presentation Wednesday at the Black Hat...