Category: Software, Ubuntu, apple

A software bill of materials (SBOM) has become a crucial piece of documentation, one that can help businesses and developers stay in compliance with security policies and rest assured they aren’t using or building on top of a platform filled with vulnerabilities. The best answer for that is to know everything that is installed as well as the version number of everything installed.

The output of the command will list every package that has been installed on the system (Figure .

In the left navigation, click on Applications (under Software), which will generate a full report of all software installed on the machine (Figure .

Compare the installed software to your CVE list of choice, and you are better capable of staying on top of the vulnerability game.

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