cyclonedx-maven-plugin VS libcnb.bash

There are a number of SBOM standards, but we'll focus on the CycloneDX standard here. CycloneDX grew out of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), is licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1 (think a "public domain" license formulated to meet the laws of many countries), and is a widely known and respected standard.

As others have already commented:

The US government has added SBOMs to a proposed rule to update the Federal Acquisition Regulation. So if you want to sell to the US Government you'll have to provide SBOMs: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/03/2023-21...

Lots of large companies require SBOMs from their supplier.

In the EU we will get the Cyber Resilience Act which will make them mandatory as well in certain cases: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-12536-2023-...

And yes, there's bascially two technical standards to provide them: SPDX and CycloneDX: https://cyclonedx.org/

Usually there is a requirement through a risk in the risk register, new project etc. appsec engineers perform an analysis of what is available in the market paid and/or open source and match it against the list of requirements and come up with an proposal to be signed off by relevant stakeholders. Usually (there may be exceptions) security engineers take care of the implementation. Which snyk product are talking about? SCA? If so have a look in https://cyclonedx.org/ open source or jfrog (paid) but it will depend much on your current processes mainly around CI/CD tools

We use https://cyclonedx.org/ to auto generate them.

The recent govulncheck effort made me think of the possibility of having the go tool create an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) in a standard format like CycloneDX that could be consumed by existing tools like DependencyTrack. Somewhat similar to the recent docker sbom feature.

Alternative it would be nice, if there is way to get an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials). Microsoft created an Open Source Tool to get an SBOM for many programming languages, but pascal is not one of this. With a SBOM file, it should be possible to run it against a tool like CycloneDX.

A Software-Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) lists all the software components included in an image. Buildpacks support SBOMs in CycloneDX, Syft and SPDX formats.

CycloneDX is OWASP's lightweight SBOM standard for application security and software composite analysis. It comes with multiple tools for all environments. Its maven plugin generates SBOM featuring all types of dependencies in your projects.

There is a CylconeDX plugin available on Maven central and Github that appears to be well-maintained and commonly used.

This sample project is using Maven build system for generating artifacts. cyclonedx-maven-plugin is used for generating CycloneDX SBom file.

The Paketo Buildpacks are mostly written in Go, while the Heroku buildpacks are written in Bash and Rust. The libcnb library is a Go language binding of the Cloud Native Buildpacks API. It's supported by the project, but there are also libraries outside of the project like libcnb.bash.