Ask HN: Open-source SBOM generation tools?

7 points by riyakhanna1983 3y ago ↗ HN

One of the compliance requirements of the recent Cybersecurity EO order is to track software bill of materials (SBOM). Curious to know what open-source tools exist to generate SBOM and how accurate they are.

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jasonrojas 3y ago ↗

We use this - https://dependencytrack.org/

chintler 3y ago ↗

This[0] was posted a few days ago here.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/micr...

jupenur 3y ago ↗

We weren't happy with what was already out there, so we built our own -- https://github.com/mattermost/gobom

derkoe 3y ago ↗

Currently the best one I know of is https://github.com/anchore/syft. It finds most dependencies even within built artifacts.

You can also check out the comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32104805 - the release announcement of Salus (Microsoft)