Evaluate Your SBOM Accuracy
Is Your C/C++ SBOM Defensible?
C/C++ SBOMs are harder than they look. Use this checklist to see whether your SBOM is complete, trustworthy, and ready for vulnerability management, compliance, and customer review.
NTIA Alignment
How This SBOM Model Relates to NTIA Guidance
NTIA minimum elements define the baseline expectations for a usable SBOM. This assessment goes further by evaluating whether an SBOM is operationally useful for real security, compliance, and release workflows.
NTIA focuses on foundational SBOM requirements such as component identity, dependency relationships, machine-readable formats, and automation needed to produce and exchange an SBOM.
This checklist evaluates maturity beyond the baseline, including build provenance, transitive dependency coverage, artifact traceability, release readiness, and independent validation.
| Your Model | Approximate NTIA Alignment |
|---|---|
| Level 4 — Build-Attested SBOM | Beyond NTIA minimum elements |
| Level 3 — Operational SBOM | Meets NTIA baseline plus operational maturity |
| Level 2 — Partial SBOM | Partial NTIA alignment |
| Level 1 — Inventory SBOM | Below NTIA minimum elements |
Important: Meeting NTIA minimum elements does not automatically mean an SBOM is complete enough for vulnerability management or customer attestation. This assessment is designed to help distinguish baseline SBOMs from release-grade SBOMs.
Accurate SBOM Generation for Embedded Software
RunSafe’s SBOM generation capabilities provide deep visibility into embedded software written in C/C++.
By generating SBOMs at build time, RunSafe captures only the components and libraries in a build for an accurate picture of your embedded software and fewer false positives and negatives.
Generate an SBOM for Your C/C++ Application
RunSafe helps software teams improve SBOM accuracy for native applications by addressing the gaps that often undermine vulnerability management and compliance efforts. From transitive dependencies to build provenance, RunSafe supports a more trustworthy approach to C/C++ SBOM generation.