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Why we built the Trust Portal

March 18, 2026·4 min read·SBOMVault Team

Every B2B software vendor has lived this story. A Fortune 500 customer's procurement team sends a security questionnaire. Buried on page 14 is a request for "your SBOM." The vendor scrambles, generates something, emails a zip file, and never hears about it again.

Then six months later it happens with the next customer. And the next. And eventually you have a folder of point-in-time SBOMs sent to a dozen customers, none of which match the actual product they're running today.

The Trust Portal model

The Trust Portal flips this. Instead of emailing SBOMs, you create time-limited, tokenized share links. The customer accesses a branded view of your latest SBOM and any compliance attestations attached to it. You see when they accessed it, how long they spent, and what they exported.

When you ship a new release, the share link automatically points to the new SBOM. No re-emailing, no version drift.

What customers see

The Trust Portal page shows:

  • Component inventory with versions
  • Active CVEs, with VEX statements where applicable
  • Compliance posture (NTIA / EU CRA / FDA / etc.)
  • License inventory
  • A download button (CycloneDX or SPDX, your choice)

What they don't see: anything you haven't explicitly published. The portal renders only the artifacts you attach to the share.

Why this matters

Procurement teams want to trust vendors who make their security posture legible. The Trust Portal does exactly that — and it does it without turning your security team into a full-time SBOM-emailing operation.