RunSafe Identify: Build-Time SBOM Generation & Vulnerability Management
In this white paper, you’ll learn:
- Where traditional SBOM generation methods fall short and why accuracy matters
- How build-time SBOM generation reveals dependencies and components other approaches can miss
- How file-level evidence and package-level intelligence improve vulnerability identification and reduce false positives
- How accurate SBOMs enable continuous vulnerability monitoring, risk prioritization, and compliance reporting
Why Your SBOM May Not Tell the Whole Story
An SBOM should provide a reliable inventory of a product’s software components, but how it’s generated determines what it reveals.
Source scanners identify declared components, while binary scanners work backward from finished software. Both have limitations that can result in missing dependencies, incorrect component identification, and unnecessary vulnerability alerts.
These challenges are especially common in embedded C and C++ environments but extend across software ecosystems, where build configurations, third-party components, and incomplete metadata can create gaps between what’s reported in an SBOM and what’s actually in the product.
A More Accurate Approach to SBOM Generation and Management
RunSafe Identify generates SBOMs during the build process, capturing the files, libraries, and dependencies used in the software being produced.
By combining file-level evidence with package identification and provenance information, Identify provides greater visibility into software composition and supports vulnerability and license management.
Beyond SBOM generation, the RunSafe Security Platform continuously monitors components for new vulnerabilities, reduces false positives through file-level analysis, prioritizes remediation, and maintains accurate SBOMs across releases.