Inventory software components and services and the dependency relationships between them
A complete and accurate inventory of all first-party and third-party components is essential for risk identification. BOMs should ideally contain all direct and transitive components and the dependency relationships between them.
CycloneDX far exceeds the Minimum Elements for Software Bill of Materials as defined by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in response to U.S. Executive Order 14028.
Adopting CycloneDX allows organizations to quickly meet these minimum requirements and mature into using more sophisticated use cases over time. CycloneDX is capable of achieving all SBOM requirements defined in the OWASP Software Component Verification Standard (SCVS).
CycloneDX can represent any type of software component along with services the software relies on. Refer to Use Cases for details on the many possibilities that exist for beginner, intermediate, and advanced SBOM use cases.
BOMs demonstrating SBOM capabilities can be found at https://github.com/CycloneDX/bom-examples
