What Makes a Good SBOM? Ensuring High-Quality, Actionable Software Bill of Materials

Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern software supply chain security, transparency, and compliance. However, simply producing an SBOM is not enough — the quality of the data, its completeness, accuracy, and machine-readability are what determine whether it can truly support vulnerability management, risk mitigation, and regulatory requirements.

Standards bodies like the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have defined minimum elements for SBOMs and recommended practices to scale their operational use across organizations. Emerging community guidance, including OWASP-related maturity models, highlights the importance of completeness, confidence, and lifecycle context in SBOMs.

In this 45-minute webinar, we’ll cut through the noise and show what truly makes a high-quality, actionable SBOM. You’ll learn how to evaluate your own SBOMs, understand common pitfalls, and build quality gates that align with standards and real-world risk workflows. We’ll then demonstrate how ONEKEY’s SBOM Management capabilities — including binary-based generation, version matching, license identification, and continuous monitoring — help you produce SBOMs that are not only compliant but useful for security, compliance, and lifecycle risk management.

During the session you will learn:

• Why many SBOMs fail to deliver high-quality data and what “quality” actually means in practice
• Core SBOM quality criteria based on NTIA’s minimum elements and CISA’s evolving guidance
• How to assess SBOM completeness, accuracy, and machine-readability
• Techniques to ensure consistency, confidence, and lifecycle continuity in SBOMs
• How ONEKEY enhances SBOM quality through automated component detection, standardized naming, CVE matching, and VEX support
• Practical steps to integrate high-quality SBOM generation into your product lifecycle

The session will include a live demonstration of generating and validating an SBOM, refining the data, and exporting a standards-compliant artifact that you can immediately use for vulnerability and risk workflows.

Whether you’re responsible for software security, supply chain risk management, compliance, or product assurance, this webinar will give you actionable strategies and tools to ensure your SBOMs are trustworthy, complete, and ready for real-world use.

Can’t join live? No problem — register now, and you’ll receive the on-demand recording afterward.