📋 Case Study

Consumer Electronics BOM Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation

Third-party firmware components lacked SBOM (Software Bill of Materials), exposing supply chain vulnerability to CVE exploits

🏗️ Project Overview

Next-gen smart home hub with embedded AI processor

🎯 Challenge

Third-party firmware components lacked SBOM (Software Bill of Materials), exposing supply chain vulnerability to CVE exploits

🔧 Design Approach

Integrated Syft/Trivy into CI/CD pipeline; extended BOM schema to include SWID tags, SBOM exports (SPDX), and certificate attestation

📐 Design Diagram

AI-generated project design illustration

📐 Key Calculations

SBOM Coverage Rate

(Components with SBOM / Total SW Components) × 100

Result: 100%

Mandatory for U.S. Executive Order 14028 compliance

📊 Results

Passed DHS CISA audit; achieved NIST SP 800-161 alignment; zero critical CVEs in production release

💡 Lessons Learned

• •Hardware BOMs must coexist with software BOMs in unified governance
• •SBOM generation must be automated — manual creation is unsustainable at scale

✅ Key Takeaways

• 1Hardware BOMs must coexist with software BOMs in unified governance
• 2SBOM generation must be automated — manual creation is unsustainable at scale