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BOM governance & digital trust.
Engineering notes, compliance patterns and platform updates, SBOM through HBOM, built for regulated teams.
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CERT-In's QBOM Is a Hardware Checklist, Not a Quantum Readiness Strategy
CERT-In's July 2025 guidelines introduced QBOM alongside SBOM, CBOM, AIBOM and HBOM. It is a useful inventory template for quantum hardware, but it is not a PQC migration plan. Here is what QBOM actually asks for, why the rest of the world standardised on CBOM instead, and the seven-step process that answers the question CISOs are really asking.
Read the post →Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Coming. Is Your Crypto Inventory Ready?
NIST has finalized its post-quantum cryptography standards and CERT-In has already expanded its BOM guidelines to cover it.
Read the post →Vulnerability Prioritization, Explained: What CISA's BOD 26-04 Means
A beginner's guide to CVSS, CISA's BOD 26-04, and why the way organizations decide what to fix first just changed. Explained simply, from scratch.
Read the post →You Can't Secure What You Can't See: Turning SBOMs From Files Into Answers
Your vendor sent you an SBOM. Now what? How to turn machine-readable SBOMs into readable, comparable, actionable answers across every sector.
Read the post →Understanding SBOM Generation Across the Software Lifecycle
A practical guide to generating Software Bills of Materials at every stage from source code to runtime for complete supply chain visibility.
Read the post →Is Patching Dead for Microservices?
Your vulnerability scanner is lying to you. Your patch SLAs are security theatre. And the first CTO or CISO who admits it out loud will be the only one actually shipping security…
Read the post →What is SBOM
Most organisations ship software without knowing what's inside it. This guide explains what a Software Bill of Materials is, why governments worldwide now mandate it, what India's…
Read the post →SEBI's CSCRF Names SBOMs Here's What GV.SC.S5 Actually Demands (and Where It Still Leaves Gaps)
SEBI's August 2024 Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework makes SBOMs mandatory for all Regulated Entities. We unpack Standard GV.SC.S5, its nine fields, linked controls and…
Read the post →Beyond SCA: Generating SBOMs, CBOMs, QBOMs, and AIBOMs at Runtime
Static analysis tells you what your software was supposed to contain. Runtime observation tells you what's actually running.
Read the post →Don't Trust the SBOM Your Vendor Gave You
We built a tool to prove whether your CycloneDX SBOM meets CERT-In's 21 mandatory fields field by field, with a clear compliance ceiling.
Read the post →Your Vendor NDA Won't Stop a Supply Chain Attack
What the 2026 IRDAI Cybersecurity Mandates get right, what they miss, and the one capability every regulated insurer needs to deploy now.
Read the post →End of Life is a Blind Spot for Open-Source Packages in Your Supply Chain
By the time you discover a dependency is abandoned, it's usually already a liability. Here's why EOL detection can't be a metadata lookup and what to do instead.
Read the post →Software Supply Chain Intelligence: Not Just an Inventory
Most teams treat an SBOM as a compliance checkbox. We break down why a static list of components is not the same as supply chain security and what intelligence grade SBOM…
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