Certhy for Enterprises: An Educational Overview

01Overview

Certhy is positioned as an enterprise-grade platform for managing xBOMs — Software, Cryptography, Hardware, AI and Quantum Bills of Materials — at organizational scale, with a stated alignment to CERT-In's software supply chain security guidance. Where the open-source tools covered elsewhere on this site (Syft, Trivy, Dependency-Track, and others) are typically point solutions — generate a BOM, or scan one, or manage one — a platform like Certhy is meant to sit above them, coordinating BOM generation, review, and compliance reporting across an entire software portfolio rather than one repository at a time.

This page describes that category and where it typically fits, rather than serving as a sales pitch. If you're evaluating whether you need a platform like this at all, start with our CERT-In compliance guide and readiness self-assessment — many organizations are well served by open-source tooling alone, especially early in their program.

02Enterprise challenges

These are the recurring, well-documented pain points that organizations run into once a BOM program grows past a handful of repositories — the same gaps described in the CERT-In compliance guide's Common Challenges section, at enterprise scale:

• Portfolio-wide visibility. Dozens or hundreds of applications each need their own BOM; without a central system, there's no single answer to "which of our products use this vulnerable component?"
• Tooling and format fragmentation. Different teams generate SBOMs with different tools, in different formats, on different schedules — undermining consistency exactly when regulators expect it.
• Keeping pace with CERT-In's expanded scope. CERT-In's v2.0 guidelines cover five BOM types; most organizations' tooling still only handles SBOM well, leaving CBOM, HBOM, AIBOM and QBOM as manual gaps.
• The manual-review bottleneck. Roughly a third of CERT-In's 21 required SBOM fields need human judgment — criticality, end-of-life date, and similar — which doesn't scale as a spreadsheet exercise across hundreds of components.
• Audit and procurement readiness. Producing structured evidence on demand for CERT-In, RBI, or SEBI reviewers is difficult without a system of record.
• Cross-functional coordination. Security, legal, procurement and engineering each touch BOM governance, but rarely share one system to coordinate through.

03How Certhy helps

At a category level, platforms built for this problem generally work by centralizing BOM ingestion from whatever generators teams already use, layering a review and governance workflow on top of the automatable parts, and producing audit-ready output on demand — rather than replacing the open-source generators themselves.

04Supported xBOM types

CERT-In's v2.0 guidelines span five BOM types. Here's what each covers, and the platform support status:

We're deliberately not marking any row "supported" or "not supported" without verifying it directly — a wrong claim here is worse than an honest gap. See the xBOM family overview for what each type means in depth.

05Compliance automation

In this product category, "compliance automation" typically means orchestrating BOM generation across a portfolio (rather than generating one BOM at a time), automatically correlating components against vulnerability and VEX/CSAF data, and flagging where CERT-In's manual-review fields — criticality, end-of-life date, usage restrictions — still need a human decision rather than pretending they can be fully automated.

06Dashboard

Enterprise xBOM platforms typically offer a portfolio-level dashboard: a risk overview across all tracked applications, compliance status broken out by BOM type, and drill-down into any single product's component inventory.

07REST APIs

Platforms in this category commonly expose a REST API for BOM ingestion and query, so CI/CD pipelines can push newly generated BOMs automatically rather than relying on manual upload. A generic shape, illustrative of the category rather than Certhy's actual API, looks like this:

POST /api/v1/boms
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <token>

{ "type": "sbom", "format": "cyclonedx", "document": { ... } }

GET /api/v1/applications/{id}/compliance-status

08Reporting

Typical reporting in this category includes audit-ready exports (mapped to CERT-In's field requirements), executive-level compliance summaries, and trend reporting across releases.

09Deployment options

Enterprise platforms in this space commonly offer some combination of SaaS (vendor-hosted), self-hosted/on-premises (relevant for organizations with data-residency constraints — a real consideration for government and essential-services entities under CERT-In's scope), and hybrid models.

10Comparison with open source

This is the one section on this page we can address responsibly without vendor confirmation, because it's about the category, not Certhy specifically. Open-source tools remain a fully valid choice — many organizations run a complete SBOM program on them alone.

See the vendor-neutral SBOM tools comparison and SBOM management platforms comparison for how Certhy stacks up specifically against Dependency-Track, Black Duck, Mend, Snyk, Sonatype and Anchore.

11Pricing guidance

Enterprise xBOM/SBOM platform pricing in this market is typically structured one of a few ways: per-seat (named users), per-asset (applications or repositories tracked), or per-component-volume, usually with a custom quote rather than public list pricing once you're above a small-team tier. Expect an initial conversation to scope your portfolio size before a number is possible.

12Frequently asked questions

13Case studies