Former CISA SBOM official previews new Hardware Bill of Materials effort in planning stages

Allan Friedman, a leader on Software Bill of Materials, is starting a new initiative to build a multistakeholder process for Hardware Bill of Materials based at the Institute for Security and Technology, in one of his first moves since leaving the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in late July.

“The problem of the success of SBOM is a bunch of smart people in government said, ‘Well, if an SBOM exists, then surely there must be an HBOM for hardware too,’”...