Use Case

Know What's in Your Software

Complete software bill of materials with auto-generated SBOMs, centralized management, and SLSA provenance attestation. Full visibility into every component, every dependency, every deployment.

4hrs
Log4Shell Response
287
Days Industry Average
$12M
Contract Secured
100%
SBOM Coverage

The Visibility Gap

You can't secure what you can't see

01

No Visibility Into Composition

Most organizations can't answer a simple question: what's actually in our software? Without composition visibility, you're flying blind.

02

SBOMs Are Incomplete & Outdated

Manual SBOM generation creates point-in-time snapshots that are stale before they're shared. Incomplete SBOMs create a false sense of security.

03

Can't Track What's Deployed

Software moves from dev to staging to production with no reliable way to track which components and versions are running where.

04

Supply Chain Blind Spots

When Log4Shell hit, the average organization took 287 days to respond. They couldn't find where the vulnerable library was used.

How Safeguard Solves This

Complete Visibility. Full Control.

Auto-Generate SBOMs

Automatically generate CycloneDX and SPDX-compliant SBOMs across your entire portfolio. Always current, always complete.

CycloneDX & SPDX formats
Continuous generation in CI/CD
Binary & source analysis

Centralized Repository

Single source of truth for all your SBOMs with full version control, search, and diff capabilities.

Version-controlled SBOM history
Cross-project dependency search
Change tracking & alerts

Secure Sharing

Share SBOMs with auditors, customers, and regulators through secure, controlled channels with granular access.

Role-based access control
Auditor-ready exports
Automated compliance reports

SLSA Provenance Attestation

Cryptographically attest the provenance of every component. Prove what went into your build and where it came from.

SLSA framework compliance
Signed attestations
Tamper-evident build records
Real Result

Defense Contractor Secures $12M DoD Contract

A defense contractor needed SBOM attestation to qualify for a critical Department of Defense contract. Using Safeguard, they generated complete, auditor-ready SBOMs across their entire portfolio in days — not months. The automated SLSA provenance attestation gave DoD evaluators the confidence to award the $12M contract. When Log4Shell hit weeks later, they identified all affected systems in 4 hours while competitors took an average of 287 days.

$12M
Contract Won
4hrs
Log4Shell Response
100%
SBOM Coverage

Where this use case bites in real life

Four moments where "what is actually in our software" becomes an urgent question with a deadline attached.

01

Customer security questionnaire

A strategic customer asks for a current SBOM for product X within 48 hours. Without a portal, you'd be grepping through three monorepos and stitching outputs together by hand.

The hurt: the SBOM is overdue before you finish assembling it.

02

EO 14028 / NIS2 attestation

A regulator wants signed SBOMs for every shipped artefact in the past year — not screenshots, not unsigned JSON, real cryptographic attestations tied to your build.

The hurt: unsigned evidence is worth zero in the audit room.

03

AI-BOM

Internal compliance asks which models, prompts, and tool calls are baked into the product, with versions and provenance — and they want it before the next board meeting.

The hurt: AI components are invisible to traditional package scanners.

04

Maintainer takeover incident

An upstream package is hijacked overnight and starts shipping malware. You need to know — by morning — which of your services pulls that package transitively and at what version.

The hurt: without a transitive index, the answer is "we'll get back to you."

The Flow

How Safeguard handles it, step by step

01

SCM ingest

Repositories are connected once via GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps; every push becomes an SBOM-generating event.

02

Build-time SBOM emission

On each build, CycloneDX and SPDX documents are emitted side-by-side, capturing direct and transitive dependencies plus model and prompt components.

03

Sign with Sigstore / cosign

Each SBOM is signed in keyless mode and attached as an attestation to the build artefact — provenance becomes cryptographic, not anecdotal.

04

Verify on import

When SBOMs are pulled in from upstream vendors, signatures are verified against trusted roots before the document enters your inventory.

05

Diff against prior version

Eagle (13B) computes a component-level diff against the previous SBOM — added, removed, version-bumped, license-changed — and flags risky deltas.

06

Push to portal + customer share

Approved SBOMs land in the portal with a per-customer share link, scoped, time-bound, and revocable.

07

Audit log entry

Every emit, sign, verify, diff and share writes an immutable audit-log entry — that is the evidence pack you hand to the regulator.

What you see, ship, and report

The same SBOM serves engineering, CI, and the boardroom — three views, one source of truth.

In the IDE / CLI

Lion (1B) shows a live dependency tree for the current workspace, with hover enrichment from NVD, OSV, EPSS, KEV and GHSA. The CLI emits a SBOM artefact for any branch with a single command.

Live transitive dependency tree
Hover-enrichment on each component
One-command SBOM emit

In CI / PR

Each pipeline run uploads a signed CycloneDX + SPDX artefact pair. A PR comment diffs the new SBOM against main and highlights risky deltas — new transitive packages, license changes, removed components.

Signed SBOM artefacts per build
PR diff of added / removed components
Failing gate on policy-violating deltas

In the security / exec console

Leadership opens a portfolio-wide AI-BOM, a dependency drift map across products, and a per-customer share dashboard. Exports for regulators come pre-bundled with signatures.

Portfolio-wide AI-BOM
Cross-product dependency drift map
Customer share + regulator export

See Everything. Control Everything.

Get complete visibility into your software supply chain with automated SBOMs and provenance attestation.