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SQL Query Interface over SBOM using SafeDep Cloud

This is a '#buildinpublic' update for SafeDep Cloud Development. UI often becomes a bottleneck for developer tools causing friction. We want to overcome it by providing an SQL query interface of SBOM and security metadata.

This is a '#buildinpublic' update for SafeDep Cloud Development. UI often becomes a bottleneck for developer tools causing friction. We want to overcome it by providing an SQL query interface of SBOM and security metadata.

Developer experience is often specialized. Apart from providing domain specific use-cases, ease of getting started and ample documentation, flexibility of use especially with custom integration is important. This allows developer and security engineers, who are often subject matter experts to use a solution as per their requirement instead of compromising and following the workflows enforced by the product. This is a key focus at SafeDep in our product development efforts. We want to provide the best experience to security and platform engineers in protecting themselves against malicious, vulnerable and risky open source components.

To enable this, we shipped a key building block required to find what you need. Instead of being restricted by UI and Tables, engineers can use their familiar SQL query language to find and export security risk related information from SafeDep Cloud. Here is a quick #build-in-public demo of this feature.

Example

Let’s find all the repositories on-boarded into SafeDep Cloud using vet

vet cloud query execute --sql \
  "select projects.name, projects.version from projects"

This produces

Query returned 3 results
┌───────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
 PROJECTS.NAME PROJECTS.VERSION
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
 https://github.com/safedep/vet .git main
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
 https://github.com/safedep/api.git main
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
 https://github.com/safedep/control.git main
└───────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘         

Leaking private repositories :-O

You can also use complex queries to filter across an organization wide SBOM

select vulnerabilities.cve_id, vulnerabilities.summary from projects 
  where projects.name = 'safedep/demo-client-java' 
  and projects.version = 'v1.2.3' 
  and vulnerabilities.risk = 'CRITICAL'

Queries can be exported to file as CSV or Markdown

vet cloud query --sql $SQL --csv /path/to/out.csv

Build in Public Update

If you like what you see so far, check out a development walkthrough of what we are building at #SafeDep

SafeDep Cloud is currently at invite-only preview stage. You can register and get invited to our early adopter program.

Register for SafeDep Cloud

Leverage the power of SafeDep cloud to build an organization wide SBOM, export as CycloneDX and execute flexible queries to discover actionable risks.

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