Whats an SBOM and what does it have to do with federal cybersecurity?
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drives daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Deep in the Biden administrations executive order on cybersecurity is the idea of software bills of material (SBOMs). The order gave the Commerce Department the task of issuing guidelines for software supply chain security. One detail asked industry to provide comments to the National Telecom and Information Administration regarding SBOM. For some answers, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the open source Linux Foundation. Kate Stewart is the foundations vice president of dependable embedded systems, and David Wheeler is the foundations director of open source supply chain security.