Although security gets all the attention nowadays, the SBOM has its origins in licence compliance. Open-source licences such as GPLv3 carry a 'copyleft' obligation: if you reuse this code, you are in theory required to make your own commercial source code public as well.
The CRA and the parallel Product Liability Directive (PLD) make licence audits a hard priority for the board. An SBOM helps your legal team to proactively defuse these hidden legal time bombs.
From reading to action
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