SBOM's: you can't secure what you don't see

Few security professionals are likely to forget where they were on December 9, 2021, when a critical vulnerability in the popular Log4j Java logging library was disclosed. Commonly referred to as Log4Shell, CVE-2021-44228 is a remote execution vulnerability that gives attackers full control of any impacted system. An exploit had already been seen in the wild when the vulnerability was disclosed. But that was just the beginning of a bigger problem.

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