Case 06 · Pattern

SBOM Integration

Supply-chain truth rides with the build: SBOM generation, attachment, vuln enrichment, and release gates turn provenance into a passport — not a quarterly PDF.

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Evidence home

Pattern case — proof lives next door.

Honest scope

No dedicated repository. SBOM passports are the ingredient layer; blast-radius decisions and rehearsal live in BlastGuard.

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How it works

Every artifact gets an ingredient passport.

SBOM Integration by Andrey Lesnikov — stamp provenance in CI so promote decisions see ingredients, vulns, and evidence before release.

CI belt stamping an artifact passport before the release gate
Passport metaphor — provenance sticks to the artifact into the gate.
Animated artifact moving on a CI belt while an SBOM passport is stamped
Lifecycle — Generate → Attach → Enrich → Gate
  1. 01

    Generate in the pipeline

    SBOMs are born with the build — not scraped weeks later when auditors ask uncomfortable questions.

  2. 02

    Attach to the artifact

    The passport travels with the image digest so later stages do not invent provenance from memory.

  3. 03

    Enrich with vuln context

    Findings are readable for humans: what broke policy and what to fix — not a raw CVE dump.

  4. 04

    Gate the promote

    No passport, no promote. Supply-chain visibility becomes a delivery control, not compliance theatre.

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Evidence

From problem to proof.

How the system is framed, operated, and proven — not a slide deck summary.

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When to use

Artifacts ship without a passport: SBOM is generated late, disconnected from promote gates, or treated as a quarterly PDF instead of a delivery control.

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When not

You already stamp provenance in CI and only need blast-radius decisions after a CVE lands. That is BlastGuard territory — correlate SBOM, CVE, VEX, runtime presence, and exposure into ALLOW / WARN / QUARANTINE / BLOCK.

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See also

BlastGuard predicts blast radius after ingredients are known. Policy as Code Guardrails turns passport failures into admission and promote decisions.

Constraints

CI/CD speed, artifact provenance, vulnerability context, policy gates, and developer-readable remediation feedback.

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