Independently Verified SBOMs: Why Trust Is No Longer Enough

For years, vendor attestations and security questionnaires have been the default way organizations assess third-party software risk. But as Gartner notes in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Supply Chain Security, binary-first analysis and deep artifact forensics are emerging as important differentiators for shipped software — complementing manifest-level software composition analysis (SCA). In this webinar, we'll explore why the industry is shifting from a trust-based model to one built on independent verification and evidence, and what that means for how software gets released, accepted, and deployed.

We'll cover why vendor-provided software bills of materials (SBOMs) and manifest-level scanning fall short, why release managers should generate their own SBOMs before shipping, and why downstream organizations should do the same before deploying. We'll also compare binary analysis to legacy methods like source code analysis, and close with a live demonstration of independent software verification in action.

Attendees will learn:

• How to independently validate the security and integrity of commercial software, rather than relying solely on vendor claims
• Why self-generated SBOMs (both pre-release and pre-deployment) provide stronger assurance than manifests supplied by vendors
• Best practices for building software acceptance policies grounded in verification, not trust.