Financial sector focuses on need for scalability in Software Bill of Materials minimum elements guide

The Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council makes recommendations on ensuring a draft update to the government’s Software Bill of Materials minimum elements guide allows for scalability and harmonization, in a filing to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

“SBOMs play a vital role in enhancing software security. However, their effectiveness relies on establishing requirements that are practical, scalable, and harmonized with widely accepted schemas for documenting components and key software attributes, such as SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) and CycloneDX...