AI-BOMs replace SBOMs as way to track AI agents and bots
When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory of all the components in the environment. Enter AI-BOMs.
While a traditional SBOM includes all of the software packages and dependencies in the organization, an AI-BOM aims to cover the gaps introduced by AI assets by providing visibility across all of the models, datasets, SDK libraries, MCP servers, ML frameworks, agents, agentic skills, prompts, and other AI tools - plus how these AI components interact with each other and connect to workflows.
You don't know the recipe, you don't know the ingredients, you don't know the baker. Would you eat a slice of that cake?
"Imagine if AI is a birthday cake in the middle of this room, but you don't know how it got there," Ian Swanson, VP of AI security...
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