Key Capabilities / Features

Audit Compliance and Risk Management: Sonatype SBOM Manager simplifies compliance by providing third-party software audit capabilities. It ensures that SBOMs are regularly reviewed and that any security or policy violations are promptly identified, allowing organizations to efficiently manage compliance and risk.

SBOM Distribution with VEX-Based Annotations: The platform enables seamless sharing of SBOMs at scale with traceable, transparent VEX-based annotations. This feature ensures that SBOM data is easily communicated across teams and stakeholders while maintaining integrity and clarity.

Continuous Monitoring for Security Risks: The solution continuously monitors SBOMs for new security vulnerabilities and malware, integrating with Sonatype Lifecycle’s vulnerability data to provide real-time insights. This proactive monitoring helps organizations stay ahead of evolving security threats.

SBOM Generation, Import and Analysis: The solution allows organizations to generate SBOMs in both CycloneDX and SPDX formats. It also supports importing SBOMs from third-party software, enabling users to analyze them for component vulnerabilities, malware, and policy violations, ensuring security from all angles.

Historical Version Control and Maintenance: SBOM Manager stores and tags all historical SBOM versions, including automated VEX annotations. This capability provides full version control, allowing for continuous monitoring, automated alerts, and the generation of actionable security and compliance dashboards.

Advanced Search and Reporting: With powerful search functionality, SBOM Manager enables users to quickly find SBOMs based on applications or tags. Customizable reports can be generated to demonstrate security status, and SBOMs can be securely shared with customers, regulators, and certification bodies through a dedicated vendor portal.

How we are different

Enterprise-Class Excellence: Sonatype SBOM Manager is the industry’s only enterprise-grade solution for SBOM management, designed to handle the complexities of compliance and risk mitigation at scale. By combining market-leading SBOM management tools with Sonatype Lifecycle’s unparalleled vulnerability data, it provides organizations with unmatched transparency, efficiency, and security across the software supply chain.

Comprehensive and Automated Functionality: Unlike competitors, Sonatype SBOM Manager offers a centralized repository, automated workflows, and VEX-based annotations for SBOMs. It enables continuous monitoring for vulnerabilities and malware, simplifies regulatory compliance, and reduces the burden of manual processes for procurement, compliance, and security teams.

Proven Adoption and Trust: Trusted by over 1,000 organizations — including 266 government agencies, 478 financial firms and 263 software companies — Sonatype SBOM Manager provides the reliability, actionable insights, and historical version control organizations need to stay compliant and secure. Its seamless integration with existing tools and robust reporting capabilities make it the go-to solution for SBOM management.