cyclonedx-gradle-plugin VS dependency-track

There is a CyconeDX plugin available for Gradle. Just like the Maven plugin we discussed earlier, the Gradle plugin is released by the CycloneDX organization on Github with some of the same maintainers as the Maven plugin.

I am not sure if it fits your use case https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-gradle-plugin

OP - rather than jumping in with a “solution”, I would be Irving you to use this as an opportunity for change in your company to improve the governance around software installation in your company (a software catalog and white listing applications would be the best approach), reduce the exposure of licensing costs (or pirated software) in your environment and simplify your ongoing support requirements. Software Bill Of Materials software such as Cyclone DX as a possible solution to collate the information along with vulnerability information, to focus on the known vulnerabilities vs oldest software would be my recommendation. This is a priority in the US under the Executive Order 14208 to improve the nations’s cyber security - The minimum requirements for a Software Bill Of Materials.

I think CycloneDX [1] is the go-to SBOM specification these days.

[1] https://cyclonedx.org/

I've become interested in SBOM recently, and found there were great tools like https://dependencytrack.org/ for CycloneDX SBOMs, but all I have is SPDX SBOMs generated by GitHub.

I decided to have a go at writing my own dependency track esque tool aiming to integrate with the APIs GitHub provides.

It's pretty limited in functionality so far, but can give a high level summary of the types of licenses your repository dependencies use, and let you drill down into potentially problematic ones.

Written in NextJS + mui + sqlite, and using another project of mine to generate most of the API boilerplate/glue (https://github.com/mnahkies/openapi-code-generator)

To detect these types of vulnerabilities, we should first and foremost know our dependencies and versions, and which of them have vulnerabilities. The OWASP Top 10 2021 identifies this need as A06:2021-Vulnerable and Outdated Components. OWASP has several tools for this, including Dependency Check and Dependency Track. These tools will warn about the use of components with vulnerabilities.

https://dependencytrack.org/

You just need to use one of the various tools out there to scan.

OWASP Dependency Track - https://dependencytrack.org/

Dependency-Track

I actually want to build the same thing you are after, and I think I’ll go for the setup you describe in idea 2. The tool you can use for this is Trivy (https://trivy.dev), have it generate a SBOM and send it to Dependencytrack (https://dependencytrack.org).

If you like Dependency-Track, consider moving to Dependency-Track ( https://dependencytrack.org ), which makes administration much easier.

Even if you roll up the sleeves and add the feature yourself there is no guarantee it will be accepted upstream and you should always be prepared for the possibility of wasting time.

I don't quite understand the deployment issue. I mean, I understand people might not be tracking what's deployed, but I don't understand what is missing for it to be happening today, other than will.

For example: I build some software into a Docker image, version tag it, sign it, and generate an SBOM for it. That image goes into production with signature validation. Even if I've included 100 jar files in there, I should know exactly which ones I have. I can upload the SBOM to my DependencyTrack[1] instance to so over time no dependencies have vulnerabilities I'm not aware of.

What doesn't work in that scenario? What scenarios can't conform to that one?

[1] https://dependencytrack.org