Overview of Anchore Enterprise

What is Anchore Enterprise?

Anchore Enterprise is a software bill of materials (SBOM) - powered software supply chain management solution designed for a cloud-native world. It provides continuous visibility into supply chain security risks. Anchore Enterprise takes a developer-friendly approach that minimizes friction by embedding automation into development toolchains to generate SBOMs and accurately identify vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, and secrets for faster remediation.

Gaining Visibility with SBOMs

Anchore Enterprise generates detailed SBOMs at each step in the development process, providing a complete inventory of the software components including the direct and transitive dependencies you use. Anchore Enterprise stores all SBOMs in a SBOM repository to enable ongoing monitoring of your software for new or zero-day vulnerabilities that can arise even post-deployment.

Anchore Enterprise also detects SBOM drift in the build process, issuing an alert for changes in SBOMs so they can be assessed for risk, malware, compromised software, and malicious activity.

Identifying Vulnerability and Security Issues

Starting with the SBOM, Anchore Enterprise uses multiple vulnerability feeds along with a precision vulnerability matching algorithm to pinpoint relevant vulnerabilities and minimize false positives. Anchore Enterprise also identifies malware, cryptominers, secrets, misconfigurations, and other security issues.

Automating through Policies

Anchore Enterprise includes a powerful policy engine that enables you to define guardrails and automate compliance with industry standards or internal rules. Using Anchore’s customizable policies, you can automatically identify the security issues that you care about and alert developers or create policy gates for critical issues.

Last modified April 29, 2022