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The emergence of AI BOMs further highlights that transparency must extend beyond traditional code to include AI models, training data, and external data sources, all of which introduce risk. Without structured component inventories paired with contextual tools like VEX, security teams waste critical hours triaging irrelevant alerts instead of remediating real exposure.","**Immediate actions:**\n- Generate and publish SBOMs for all internally developed and procured software using standard formats (CycloneDX or SPDX).\n- Integrate SBOM data into your vulnerability management toolchain so new CVEs are automatically cross-referenced against your component inventory.\n\n**Long-term improvements:**\n- Require SBOMs as a contractual deliverable from all software vendors and open-source dependencies in procurement processes.\n- Extend SBOM practices to AI\u002FML systems by documenting model provenance, training datasets, and third-party integrations in AI BOMs.\n- Establish a VEX workflow to contextualise and prioritise vulnerability alerts, reducing noise for security teams.\n\n**Detection measures:**\n- Continuously monitor SBOM inventories against threat intelligence feeds and CVE databases to detect newly disclosed vulnerabilities in used components.\n- Audit SBOM completeness and accuracy on a scheduled basis to ensure inventories remain current as software evolves.",[12,13,14,15,16],"CIS Control 2: Inventory and Control of Software Assets (v8)","NIST SP 800-53 SA-12: Supply Chain Protection","NIST CSF 2.0 ID.AM-05: Assets are prioritized based on classification, criticality, resources, and impact","NIS2 Article 21(2)(d)","NIS2 Article 21(2)(e)",{"NIS2 Article 21(2)(d)":18,"NIS2 Article 21(2)(e)":19,"NIST SP 800-53 SA-12: Supply Chain Protection":20,"CIS Control 2: Inventory and Control of Software Assets (v8)":21,"NIST CSF 2.0 ID.AM-05: Assets are prioritized based on classification, criticality, resources, and impact":22},"NIS2's supply chain security point explicitly requires organizations to address security risks in relationships with suppliers and service providers, which SBOM transparency directly supports.","This point covers vulnerability handling and disclosure in acquisition, development, and maintenance — SBOM and VEX together provide the component-level visibility needed to fulfil this obligation effectively.","SA-12 calls for managing risks introduced by components and suppliers across the supply chain, directly aligning with the SBOM mandate to document and track third-party software components.","CIS Control 2 requires maintaining an accurate inventory of all software, which is exactly what an SBOM provides — enabling organizations to identify affected components when a vulnerability is disclosed.","Knowing which software components are present (via SBOM) is a prerequisite for classifying and prioritising assets for vulnerability response, as described in this CSF category.","published","2026-11-10T17:20:40.365784+00:00","2026-11-10T17:20:40.322+00:00",{"id":7,"url":27,"slug":28,"title":29},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.securityweek.com\u002Fsoftware-transparency-is-changing-allan-friedman-on-sbom-ai-boms-and-what-comes-next\u002F","software-transparency-is-changing-allan-friedman-on-sbom-ai-boms-and-what-comes-82b26d","Software Transparency Is Changing: Allan Friedman on SBOM, AI BOMs and What Comes Next",[31,37],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"description":35,"color":36},"05757c8d-6b93-4194-b35d-7359e7d33b0e","Vulnerability Management","vulnerability-management","Missing scans, no risk prioritization","#fb923c",{"id":38,"name":39,"slug":40,"description":41,"color":42},"f0c2a0af-58aa-4128-87c9-6acd30f2dc48","Supply Chain","supply-chain","Third-party risk, compromised dependencies","#8b5cf6",[],[45,48,52],{"slug":34,"name":46,"problem":47},"Vulnerability scanning and prioritisation","You know which systems are vulnerable, and which ones to fix first.",{"slug":49,"name":50,"problem":51},"asset-inventory","Cyber asset inventory","You cannot patch, monitor or protect the devices, cloud resources and accounts you do not know you have.",{"slug":53,"name":54,"problem":55},"software-supply-chain","Software supply chain security","Malicious and vulnerable open-source packages are caught before they ship."]