Webinar

The Rising Complexity of Modern Software Composition

The webinar opens by highlighting how dramatically software development has changed. What was once a landscape dominated by proprietary, internally written code is now an intricate mesh of open source libraries, commercial packages, binaries, and deeply nested dependencies. This shift has created both unprecedented innovation and a widening blind spot for organizations trying to understand what’s truly inside their products. The growth of dependency chains, multi-language repositories, and open source reuse underscores why software producers urgently need new methods to regain visibility and control.

Why Software Supply Chain Risk Has Become a Perfect Storm

The session explains how reliance on open source continues to surge, while security vulnerabilities grow in both frequency and sophistication. With bad actors backed by nation-states and financially motivated groups, exploiting small components with outsized impact has become easier than ever. Organizations are also discovering that the majority of their products contain code sourced from developers and maintainers they do not directly know or trust. Combined with rising regulatory attention, these forces have created a perfect storm that requires companies to rethink how they manage supply chain security.

Understanding the Critical Role of SBOMs

A deep dive into the purpose of Software Bills of Materials highlights why SBOMs have become essential. An SBOM is compared to a “soup‑can label” that should reveal every ingredient—components, versions, relationships, vulnerabilities, and licensing context—needed to understand the true composition of an application. Importantly, the webinar emphasizes that SBOMs must be machine‑readable, queryable, and accurate to be useful. The conversation clarifies why SBOMs are now foundational not just for compliance but for operational security, downstream communication, and rapid response in the face of new vulnerabilities.

Industry and Regulatory Forces Accelerating SBOM Adoption

The webinar provides an overview of major government and industry mandates driving organizations toward more transparent software supply chains. Recent U.S. executive orders, European cybersecurity initiatives, sector‑specific standards, and guidance from bodies like NTIA and CISA have begun formalizing SBOM expectations. These requirements are no longer theoretical; they now influence procurement, product design, and the documentation enterprises must provide customers. This context sets the stage for why organizations need scalable, repeatable ways to generate and maintain SBOMs across their portfolios.

Challenges With Traditional SCA Tools and Fragmented Data

The discussion highlights a major industry pain point: scanning alone is not enough. Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools—while valuable—can only identify parts within code they have access to. Many organizations rely on multiple tools, vendors, and partner inputs, resulting in a patchwork of partial SBOMs, inconsistent outputs, and blind spots for externally sourced components. This fragmentation makes it nearly impossible to construct a unified, trustworthy software bill of materials without heavy manual intervention.

Introducing a Unified Cloud‑Based Approach to SBOM Management

The webinar introduces a new approach that unifies data from internal scanning, external suppliers, and multiple SBOM formats into a single cloud‑based view. This system ingests SCA results, third‑party SBOM documents, and open source component data, then automatically reconciles them into normalized, actionable parts. By centralizing SBOM data—rather than scattering it across teams, tools, and spreadsheets—organizations gain an accurate, always‑updating perspective of their software inventory and supply chain exposure.

Refining SBOMs: From Raw Parts to Actionable Intelligence

The recap walks through the refinement phase, where imported components are enriched with missing metadata, corrected when inaccurate, and aligned to consistent library definitions. Organizations can fix mismatches, add licensing context, manage snippets, review risky components, and receive alerts when versions, licenses, or vulnerabilities change. This transforms raw SBOM files into living assets that reflect the real state of the software—not just the state at the time of a scan.

Enabling Comprehensive Reporting and Compliance Deliverables

A major theme of the webinar is that SBOMs alone do not satisfy all compliance requirements. The platform demonstrated in the session enables automated creation of third‑party notices, security reports, inventory reports, and machine-readable SBOMs (CycloneDX, SPDX, HTML, Excel). This ensures legal, security, and customer‑facing teams can all quickly generate the documentation they need without manual aggregation or rework. The result is faster delivery of compliance artifacts and fewer errors introduced through manual handling.

Supporting Better Decision-Making Across Security, Product, and Legal Teams

The webinar concludes by framing SBOM management as a cross‑functional capability. Security teams can rapidly assess the impact of new vulnerabilities. Product teams can detect risky upgrades or dependency changes introduced during development. Legal and compliance teams can maintain accurate license attributions and avoid distribution risks. Leadership gains visibility into component health, aging dependencies, and remediation trends to better allocate resources. This unified view strengthens trust internally and externally, and positions software producers to operate more safely and competitively.