Interlynk vs OWASP Dependency-Track

Interlynk manages software bills of materials (SBOMs) for regulated software and devices. Its platform generates, ingests, enriches, monitors, and shares SBOMs, with workflows for open-source risk, suppliers, and embedded C/C++ firmware. The lynkctl generator supports IAR, GCC, or CMake builds. Component monitoring covers newly disclosed vulnerabilities, and teams can use VEX dispositions to filter findings that do not apply. Open-source risk management includes license obligations, known vulnerabilities, and maintenance status. Components are matched against NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, and OSV, then enriched with EPSS, CISA KEV, and CWE. Suppliers can submit CycloneDX or SPDX SBOMs through secure links without an account; links last 24 hours and renew when clicked after expiry. Integrations named include GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Slack; a GraphQL API supports integration and workflow automation. The free Community Tier includes API access and alerts for policy failures and vulnerability disclosures. Interlynk says it supports work under FDA 524B, EU CRA, NIS2, DORA, and PCI DSS 4.0.

OWASP Dependency-Track is a free, self-hosted platform for managing software-component risk across a supply chain. It builds inventories from software bills of materials and identifies vulnerable components, supporting CycloneDX SBOM, HBOM, VEX, and VDR documents for ingestion, analysis, and production. Components can be matched against NVD, GitHub Advisories, OSV, OSS Index, Snyk, Trivy, and VulnDB, while integrated EPSS support helps prioritize mitigation. Integrity checks flag components when published hashes differ from those served by an upstream registry. A Common Expression Language policy engine evaluates component rules and can break a build when a policy fails. Alerts can be filtered by event fields and sent to Slack, Teams, Mattermost, email, or webhooks. API and web interfaces are available, with least-privilege portfolio access and single sign-on through OpenID Connect, Active Directory, and LDAP. Version 5.1 uses separate API and frontend container images, supports Kubernetes, and requires PostgreSQL.