Scribe vs. SBOM Management
A Comprehensive Platform for Supply Chain Security
How Scribes differs from Typical SBOM Management Solutions?
SBOM management tools are generally point solutions focused on generating and tracking SBOMs to fulfill compliance needs. While these tools help address specific software supply chain security (SSCS) requirements, they lack the depth and flexibility to protect the entire SDLC. On the other hand, Scribe Security provides a robust, comprehensive platform that offers advanced SBOM management capabilities and acts as a control plane for the entire software supply chain, delivering end-to-end SDLC security.
Scribe’s Comprehensive Platform Compared to Typical SBOM Management Solutions
| Feature | Scribe Security | Typical SBOM Management Solution | Comparison |
| Comprehensive SBOM Generation, Fusion, and Management | Scribe can generate, sign, and fuse SBOMs from various stages within the SDLC (e.g., Git, build checkout, final image), combining them to ensure accuracy and completeness. Scribe also supports third-party SBOM ingestion and manages a product-aware SBOM inventory that tracks each release, maintaining a detailed SBOM dossier for each software version. | Typical SBOM solutions generate or ingest static SBOMs from a single stage, often lack signing capabilities, and don’t offer fusion across SDLC stages. They may only provide basic storage and lack release awareness or historical tracking. | Advantage: Scribe’s fusion of SBOM data ensures accuracy and offers end-to-end SBOM visibility reflecting each product release, which is essential for compliance and security assurance. |
| Asset Discovery and Real-Time SDLC Monitoring | Scribe offers continuous discovery and monitoring across the entire SDLC, mapping dependencies, configurations, and code-to-cloud paths, providing visibility into every asset and its lineage. | SBOM tools typically track components only at the application level and lack real-time monitoring across the SDLC or pipelines. | Advantage: Scribe’s comprehensive asset discovery and monitoring extend beyond dependencies, offering complete visibility across the software factory. |
| Advanced Policy Control with Guardrails-as-Code | Scribe enables the flexible creation and placement of security policies at various stages of the SDLC, which are managed through GitOps. This allows for evidence-based, customizable policies aligned with accumulated SDLC data, enforcing security at multiple gates. | Most SBOM tools focus on managing SBOM data alone, lacking guardrails-as-code or policy enforcement throughout the SDLC. | Advantage: Scribe’s guardrails-as-code empowers organizations to enforce security policies directly within development workflows, offering real-time governance. |
| End-to-End Supply Chain Security | Beyond SBOM management, Scribe provides integrity verification, vulnerability management, ASPM capabilities, and automated compliance across the software supply. | SBOM solutions are generally limited to generating and tracking SBOMs without broader supply chain security capabilities or ASPM integration. | Advantage: Scribe offers a complete supply chain security solution that includes SBOM management and extends to the entire SDLC. |
| Transparency and Attestation Capabilities | Scribe’s attestation feature verifies software integrity and compliance, creating a transparent trust framework that software consumers can rely on to meet certification requirements like SLSA and SSDF. | Most SBOM solutions lack attestation features, limiting their ability to provide verifiable, certifiable transparency for end-users. | Advantage: Scribe’s attestation capability provides additional assurance, offering software consumers proof of security and compliance. |
| Customizable Analytics and Risk Insights | Scribe’s analytics engine provides advanced, customizable insights on software risks, vulnerability severity, exploitability, and security KPIs, supporting data-driven risk management and impact analysis across the SDLC. | SBOM tools generally provide basic reports without customizable analytics, limiting insights to a dependency-level view. | Advantage: Scribe’s analytics empower teams with actionable insights, helping them prioritize risks and respond more effectively. |
| Automated Compliance and Standardization | Scribe automates compliance workflows for standards like SLSA, SSDF, EO 14028, PCI DSS 4, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act, integrating these requirements into CI/CD processes for seamless adherence. | Typical SBOM tools offer only basic SBOM sharing, often lacking automation for compliance standards or integration into CI/CD. | Advantage: Scribe’s automated workflows reduce manual compliance efforts, keeping organizations aligned with evolving regulatory requirements. |
| Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Integration | Scribe unifies data from over 140 security tools, combining ASPM functionality with SBOM management to give a centralized, full SDLC security posture view. | SBOM tools do not generally include ASPM capabilities, limiting insights to SBOM data alone. | Advantage: Scribe’s ASPM integration offers holistic visibility across security tools, covering all security elements in one platform. |
| Continuous Tracking of Newly Published Vulnerabilities | Scribe continuously monitors newly published vulnerabilities against its SBOM inventory, ensuring that security teams are alerted to emerging risks for each release. | Standard SBOM solutions may include basic vulnerability tracking but often lack real-time monitoring or advanced tracking capabilities. | Advantage: Scribe’s real-time vulnerability tracking enables proactive responses to new threats, ensuring product safety and compliance over time. |
| Anti-Tampering and Code Signing | Scribe provides anti-tampering controls, continuous code signing, and attestation capabilities, ensuring the integrity of software artifacts from development to deployment. | Most SBOM tools focus on data tracking and lack tamper-proofing or code-signing capabilities. | Advantage: Scribe’s anti-tampering and code signing offer additional layers of security, protecting software components from unauthorized modifications. |
While typical SBOM management solutions are limited to SBOM generation, tracking, and basic vulnerability reporting, Scribe Security delivers a full-featured platform that combines advanced SBOM management with comprehensive software supply chain security. Scribe generates, signs, and fuses SBOMs across multiple SDLC stages, creating an accurate, up-to-date inventory that supports complex compliance and security requirements. By continuously tracking new vulnerabilities, enforcing policies through guardrails-as-code, and providing transparency via attestation, Scribe goes beyond SBOM management to offer an end-to-end security solution for the entire SDLC. This makes Scribe ideal for organizations requiring robust, regulatory-aligned software supply chain security.