CAST SBOM Manager vs Ortelius

CAST SBOM Manager analyzes source code and creates Software Bills of Materials for software product owners, release managers, and compliance specialists. SBOM creation can start from application code, existing files, Git repositories, or CAST Highlight results. A dashboard presents components, vulnerabilities, licenses, obsolescence, languages, topics, and file extensions. Users can define proprietary components with custom descriptions, licenses, vulnerabilities, copyrights, and programming languages, then place components in catalogs for reuse. License tools support custom definitions and management of open-source risks, requirements, obsolescence, and copyrights. Vulnerability information includes CVEs from NIST’s NVD and advisories from GitHub and GitLab, with custom vulnerabilities also supported. SBOMs can be imported from multiple formats and exported as Excel, Word, or CycloneDX. Multiple versions can be managed, and exported contents can be tailored for different audiences. The product runs on Linux and Windows with cloud or on-premises deployment. A free download is listed at free.

Ortelius connects software inventory to deployment information so teams can trace packages and versions to the endpoints where they run. It accepts SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs and can create an SBOM with Syft when one is missing. It checks inventory against OSV.dev for newly disclosed vulnerabilities every ten minutes, tracing affected packages through artifacts and deployments to endpoints. Its post-deployment security dashboard brings together project security signals, versioned SBOMs, live deployments and vulnerability detection, and correlates OpenSSF Scorecard results with deployed packages and versions. Ortelius describes the dashboard as continuously aligned with NIST 800-218 SSDF. The product is available as SaaS or on-premise/self-hosted software, with REST and GraphQL APIs protected by JWT middleware. A GitHub App supports installation connections and repository onboarding, but onboarding does not attach an SBOM. Ortelius OS Free costs nothing, with up to 5 components; DeployHub Enterprise costs $40 a month, billed $40 / component / month.