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Why your SBOM is lying to you: Rethinking OWASP A03 for 2026

DEV Community: appsec·Tilak Upadhyay·about 1 month ago
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Bad actors aren't breaking into our front door anymore; they’re poisoning the groceries in the stores before they even get into our kitchen. If you’ve been looking at the OWASP Top 10 for 2025 , you’ve seen Software Supply Chain Failure (A03:2025) skyrocket to the #3 spot. But if we’re being honest with each other, the way most of us are handling this is broken. We’ve fallen into a compliance-first trap. We’re checking boxes, generating massive spreadsheets and drowning our security analysts and developers into hundreds of "Critical" alerts that, in many cases, pose minimal or zero actual risk to the business. The Massive Myth: "A 100% Clean SBOM = Secure" As security professionals, we should know that’s a lie. We can spend an entire quarter patching every CVE in node_modules , only to realise half of those libraries weren't even being called by our application. We are essentially chasing ghosts while the actual product roadmap dies.…

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