SBOM Management for Connected Device Manufacturers
Customers and regulators require SBOMs, and every request needs a current answer. Finite State generates, reconciles, monitors, and maintains SBOMs across the product lifecycle, so what you hand over reflects the software you actually ship.
The Challenge
Most SBOMs Sit in a Folder
Teams generate an SBOM to satisfy a request, export it, and move on. The file describes one build on one day, and nothing downstream ever depends on it again.
Sources disagree
Supplier files, generated SBOMs, and manual inventories rarely match.
Stale on arrival
The export describes one build and stops matching the product.
No context
A component list with no vulnerability detail gives no one anything to do.
Only the start
Regulators also expect vulnerability handling and disclosure workflows.
Our Approach
Treat Every SBOM as a Living Record
The Finite State Platform derives each SBOM from the build itself, enriches every component with vulnerability and exploit context, and updates the record as software and threats change. The current answer is ready before anyone asks for it.
Generate
Build the SBOM From What Ships
Point Finite State at firmware, a binary, a container, or source, and it returns a component inventory derived from the artifact. Supplier files get reconciled against that inventory, producing one ground truth software inventory per product that engineering, compliance, and customer assurance all work from.
One Inventory, Every Input
Inside the analysis
Generate SBOMs pre-build and post-build across the SDLC
Derive inventories from firmware and binaries without source code
Ingest supplier SPDX and CycloneDX files and reconcile them against the build
Capture open source, proprietary, and licensing detail in the same pass
Maintain
Keep Every SBOM Current
New builds ship and new CVEs land. Finite State re-runs the analysis, updates the artifact, and re-checks the decisions attached to it, which keeps your SBOMs trustworthy in the months between releases.
Re-Checked, Not Re-Exported
- Monitor products for newly disclosed vulnerabilities against components already inventoried
- Re-evaluate VEX decisions automatically as software and exposure change
- Compare releases to see how composition evolved
- Alert on policy violations, component age, and end-of-life status
Operational Impact
Enrichment Is What Makes an SBOM Usable
Every component arrives with the vulnerability and exploit context your team needs to act on it.
Coverage and Scale
SBOMs downloaded in the past two years
Binary instruction set architectures analyzed
Vulnerability and exploit intelligence sources
Findings analyzed for reachability since 2024
What Changes for Your Team
No regeneration under deadline. The current SBOM already exists when someone asks for it.
Decisions that hold up. Every not-affected call carries the analysis behind it.
One record per product. Supplier files, scans, and manual uploads resolve into a single inventory.
From Inventory to Evidence
Turn the Inventory Into Evidence
An SBOM names what's inside a product. The decisions and documentation built on top of it are what customers and regulators actually review, and the same record produces all of it. Managed CRA support is available for manufacturers working toward self-assessment.
Component inventories in the formats customers and regulators ask for.
Exploitability decisions documented with the reasoning attached, so a not-affected call survives scrutiny.
Audit-ready outputs mapped to the EU CRA, FDA guidance, IEC 62443, and ISO/SAE 21434.
Component and vulnerability detail across products, ready to send.
FAQ
SBOM Questions, Answered
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Put Your SBOMs to Work
See what Finite State pulls out of one of your own builds, and what you can hand over the same day.