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SBOM Consumer
SBOM Consumer is the system of record for supplier SBOMs, built for companies that regularly receive Software Bills of Materials from multiple parties in their supply chain. It simplifies and automates the validation of these SBOMs' quality through Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) processes, ensuring that all components are accurately cataloged.
SBOM Consumer seamlessly ties this data into existing asset management platforms, providing a holistic view of software assets and enhancing overall supply chain security. With continuous vulnerability monitoring, contextualized threat intelligence, and real-time alerting capabilities, SBOM Consumer keeps you ahead of emerging risks.
Key Features
Effortlessly ingest SBOMs from various sources, formats, and supply chain partners, including those following industry standards like SPDX and CycloneDX.
Ensure all SBOMs are validated against governance, risk, and compliance standards. Automate third-party risk assessments and security posture evaluations to mitigate supply chain risks.
Create a centralized catalog of all SBOMs and tie them to their respective software and device assets, ensuring traceability and transparency across the IT and OT organizations.
Seamlessly connect SBOM data with your existing asset management systems, such as CMDBs or software inventory tools, to maintain a real-time overview of all software components and associated risks.
Monitor vulnerabilities in real time, ensuring your team is alerted to emerging threats related to third-party components and software assets. Receive contextualized threat intelligence to assess the severity and exploitability of each vulnerability.
Integrate threat intelligence to provide deeper insights into potential vulnerabilities. By contextualizing vulnerabilities with global threat data, SBOM Consumer helps you prioritize risks based on severity, relevance, and exploit potential.
Immediate alerts for critical vulnerabilities allow security teams to act swiftly. Tailor alerts to specific software components, enabling focused and proactive risk management.
Stay compliant with regulatory frameworks like NIST and FDA requirements by ensuring that all software components in the supply chain are properly documented, validated, and maintained.
Benefits
Save time and resources by automating the ingestion and validation of SBOMs from your supply chain, reducing the need for manual processes.
Proactively manage vulnerabilities in third-party software components through integration with GRC, TPRM, and contextual threat intelligence, ensuring that risks are identified and mitigated early.
Gain full visibility into the software components being used within your supply chain, allowing for informed decision-making and improved compliance.
Tie SBOM data to existing asset management platforms to maintain a complete, up-to-date catalog of software assets, improving lifecycle management and risk assessment capabilities.
Act on emerging threats quickly through continuous vulnerability monitoring, contextualized intelligence, and real-time alerting, reducing the time between threat detection and mitigation.
Who Needs SBOM Consumer?
Seeking to validate and monitor third-party components.
Focused on ensuring compliance and reducing third-party risks.
Need automated integration with existing tools, asset management solutions, and workflows.
Such as healthcare HDO, defense, and finance, which require full visibility and compliance for all software components.
The Cybeats SBOM Consumer Difference
SBOM Consumer not only simplifies the process of validating and ingesting SBOMs, but it also helps you stay ahead of compliance and security risks by integrating seamlessly into your existing asset management and risk frameworks. With continuous vulnerability monitoring, contextualized threat intelligence, and real-time alerting, SBOM Consumer empowers your team to proactively address emerging threats, and ensure the integrity of your software supply chain.
SBOM Consumer: frequently asked questions
Answers for organizations that receive SBOMs from vendors, on ingestion, quality analysis and monitoring.
What is SBOM Consumer?
SBOM Consumer ingests, validates and monitors the SBOMs your vendors send you. It is built for organizations that receive SBOMs rather than produce them: it catalogs every SBOM against your software and device assets, and watches those components for new vulnerabilities.
How do you validate an SBOM from a vendor?
Run it through Quality Analysis, which flags issues in the component data the vendor sent you. SBOM Consumer and SBOM Studio share that check, backed by Autocorrection and SBOM repair modules built over years. You cannot control what a supplier sends, so the platform ingests SBOMs that would otherwise be unusable.
What happens after a vendor sends you an SBOM?
Catalog it, tie it to an asset, then monitor it. SBOM Consumer catalogs every component, enriches each one with supply chain intelligence, links the SBOM to the matching software or device asset, and alerts you when a new vulnerability affects one of them.
How do you ask a vendor for an SBOM?
Put it in the contract and give them somewhere to deliver it. Ask for a machine-readable SBOM in SPDX or CycloneDX at procurement, a fresh one at every release, and say what coverage you expect. For the format and depth the EU CRA expects of your suppliers, see EU CRA SBOM requirements. The Vendor Management add-on creates dedicated vendor accounts so suppliers upload SBOMs themselves.
Is my vendor affected by this CVE?
Import the VEX the vendor publishes, or send a VEX inquiry through the Vendor Management add-on. When a new vulnerability lands on a component in an SBOM you hold, SBOM Consumer alerts you with severity and exploit context. An imported VEX narrows the list to what is really exploitable, and the add-on lets you ask that vendor to confirm on the record.
Does SBOM data connect to your CMDB or asset inventory?
Yes, to CMDBs and software inventory tools. SBOM Consumer connects SBOM data to the asset management systems you already run, and ties each SBOM to the software or device asset it belongs to, so component risk shows up where your teams already work.
Does SEBI CSCRF require an SBOM?
Yes, for regulated entities in India. Standard GV.SC.S5 of SEBI's CSCRF requires an SBOM for existing critical systems, and for any new critical system software or SaaS application at procurement. Market infrastructure institutions must also include SBOM in their vendor empanelment criteria.
Does NIS 2 require an SBOM?
Not by name, but its supply chain duties are hard to meet without one. Article 21(2)(d) requires essential and important entities to secure direct supplier relationships, and 21(3) makes them weigh supplier vulnerabilities. Article 23 sets a 24 hour early warning and a 72 hour notification for significant incidents.
What do you do if a vendor refuses to provide an SBOM?
Ask what they can share instead, then write the requirement into the renewal. A component list under NDA or an attestation naming third party components beats nothing, and a vendor selling into the EU takes on an SBOM obligation of its own from December 11, 2027: see what the CRA requires of your suppliers.
How is SBOM Consumer different from SBOM Studio?
SBOM Studio is for software you build. SBOM Consumer is for software you buy. Studio manages the SBOMs you produce and share with customers. Consumer handles the SBOMs your vendors send you and ties them to the assets you run. Many organizations run both.
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