Effective management of software bills of materials (SBOMs) is now crucial for ensuring security, achieving compliance, and optimizing operational efficiency.
With regulatory requirements on the rise and software supply chains becoming more complex, organizations need tools that can handle SBOMs at enterprise scale, whether they're generated internally or received from vendors.
That's where Sonatype SBOM Manager comes in. Designed to store, audit, and manage both first-party and third-party SBOMs, it provides a centralized record system that scales from thousands to even millions of SBOMs.
With recent updates, you can simplify SBOM compliance, protect IP, prevent legal liability, and simultaneously improve visibility, strengthen workflows, and streamline development.
Organizations today are not just building software. They are assembling applications from countless components, dependencies, and third-party libraries.
To stay ahead, they want to streamline software evaluations and strengthen their AI defense strategy with integrated governance, preventing compliance fines, mitigating breach risks, saving time on security reviews, and increasing visibility and control.
Each of these has its own potential risks and compliance obligations.
Effective SBOM management ensures:
Compliance requirements are met across global regulatory frameworks like PCI 4.0, DORA, and government mandates.
Security vulnerabilities are tracked and disclosed even in older or previously shipped versions of software.
Efficiency is preserved by automating ingestion, auditing, and monitoring of SBOMs.
SBOM Manager was built to handle compliance and security at enterprise scale with three pillars of functionality:
Audit: Search thousands of SBOMs, identify risks, and evaluate vulnerabilities.
Annotate: Add Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) notes to describe mitigation steps, risks, or justifications.
Distribute and monitor: Share enriched SBOMs with regulators, auditors, and downstream consumers, and continuously monitor them as new vulnerabilities emerge.
As Sonatype's Jamie Whitehouse noted during a recent webinar: "Software ages like milk. Even if an SBOM looks clean today, tomorrow new vulnerabilities can surface. SBOM Manager ensures you know exactly which versions are impacted."
The latest updates, available both in the Cloud and in self-hosted deployments, introduce powerful new features that expand what organizations can do with their SBOM data.
With containerized applications now the standard for modern development, SBOM Manager introduces integrated container scanning that captures not just application code, but also operating system (OS)-level packages inside container images.
Identifies vulnerabilities across application and OS layers.
Enables VEX annotations for OS-level issues with context (e.g. mitigations, limited exploitability).
Runs directly from the CLI, making it easy to embed into CI/CD pipelines or Docker repositories.
This ensures complete visibility into the software supply chain, from the code you build to the containers you ship.
Licensing is one of the trickiest areas of open source management. A component may declare one license in its metadata, but may include additional, conflicting licenses in its source files.
New compliance features in SBOM Manager now include:
Expanded license detection across 13 ecosystems, covering both declared (metadata) and observed (source file) licenses.
Editable license declarations to correct vendor errors or omissions.
Legal review workflows that help reviewers assess obligations, make license selections, and track progress.
Automated attribution reports that cut manual effort by up to 30x.
This empowers legal and compliance teams to identify risks, enforce policies, and ensure obligations are met, without being bogged down in manual review cycles.
SBOM Manager now recognizes that "software" doesn't stop at source code. Many SBOMs today include dependencies like operating systems, hardware, and even AI models. The expanded catalog provides visibility into these areas with detailed security and compliance data.
Examples include:
Hardware (e.g., Intel processors, Snapdragon chipsets)
Operating systems (Linux, MacOS, etc.)
Databases and applications (PostgreSQL, proprietary software)
AI models (including derivative and retrained models)
By broadening coverage, SBOM Manager ensures organizations can manage the entire software environment, not just the code they write.
Together, these enhancements allow teams to:
Stay compliant with evolving regulations worldwide.
Accelerate secure development by automating SBOM ingestion, updates, and annotations.
Collaborate more effectively across development, security, and legal teams.
Deploy flexibly in the Cloud, on-premises, or in disconnected environments.
For organizations facing complex compliance requirements or operating at massive scale, SBOM Manager provides the tools to simplify workflows, strengthen trust, and reduce risk.
SBOMs are no longer optional. They are a foundational requirement for software security, compliance, and transparency. SBOM Manager allows you to manage SBOMs at enterprise scale, with powerful new features for container scanning, license compliance, and expanded data coverage.
Whether you are building modern applications, shipping containers, or adopting AI-driven tools, SBOM Manager provides the comprehensive system of record you need to stay secure, compliant, and efficient.
Want to see these capabilities in action? Watch the full webinar and learn how to level up your SBOM management.