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v4.2.16 | 2.86.0
Dec 13, 2024
Summary
View and manage level of support and EOS/EOL data for all components
Specify lifecycle details for each component
Set component rules to consistently apply lifecycle information across all components in your portfolio
Enhanced component filtering
Export lifecycle information to FDA SBOM or CycloneDX SBOM
Bug fixes and UI improvements
Identify and prioritize components nearing EOS/EOL
We’ve added columns for Level of support and EOS/EOL to the components table, as well as providing color-coded badges to let you know what’s currently actively supported and what’s nearing or has passed its support or maintenance date. We’ve also begun ingesting lifecycle information from our partner, Tidelift, as well as the endoflife.date site, and will likely provide some automation for this in an upcoming release.
Specify lifecycle details for each component
You can specify Level of support and EOS/EOL information in a date or text format for each component in the new Lifecycle details section of the component details panel. You can then set component rules to apply this information across all products, so you only have to do this once!
Set rules to apply component lifecycle information across all products
You can now create rules to set conditions for supplier name, component name, and version, then automatically apply the Level of support and EOS/EOL information across all of your products when conditions are met. With consistent EOS/EOL data, you minimize discrepancies across your portfolio, ensuring accurate reporting and compliance. Stay tuned for more rules-based workflow enhancements!
Export lifecycle information to FDA SBOM or CycloneDX SBOM
After applying your Level of support and EOS/EOL information across your components, quickly export your FDA SBOM to ensure you have everything you need for FDA submission! You can also export it to a CycloneDX SBOM.
Enhanced component filtering
To enable you to quickly find what you need, we’ve enhanced our filtering mechanism and added lifecycle management filters. You can now filter components on Level of support and EOS/EOL information to ensure you understand which are supported and which are nearing end-of-life, enabling you to prioritize upgrades in critical areas. Stay tuned for more filtering updates soon!
Bug fixes and other improvements:
All CycloneDX remediation justification values should now be accurately exported in your FDA SBOM report.
All products should now display accurately on the components page.
Global search improvements
Fixed issue wherein components from archived products were being returned in the global search.
Global search results table display now extends to the bottom of the page.
Thank you!
A huge thank you to all of our customers who take the time to provide feedback on how we can continue to improve your SBOM vulnerability management experience! We’d love to hear your feedback on these features, as well as other features you’d like to see in the future!
v4.2.4 | 2.85.0
November 21, 2024
Summary
Automatically generate component license information
Encode pURLs with spaces during exports
Import and export component hashes
Filter on CISA KEV and remediation through our API
Updated terminology from Vendor to Supplier in SBOM CSV export
Automatically generate component license information
You can now have Helm automatically add license information for your components. For any component that you want to enrich with license information, click Actions > Reload component. Note that reloading will discard any metadata you may have added to this component, such as review information, and will re-identify associated vulnerabilities, so you may see some discrepancy in your number of vulnerabilities for that component. This reduces your manual effort of tracking down licensing information, ensuring you have the latest license information available from our data sources.
Encode pURLs with spaces during exports
If your SBOM has a Package URL (pURL) that contains spaces, we'll now automatically encode those when exporting. This ensures compatibility with third-party tools and eliminates issues caused by improperly formatted pURLs.
Import and export component hashes
You can now import and export component hashes in your SBOMs, and can export them in any SBOM format, as well as our FDA SBOM, improving validation and tracking of SBOM component integrity across products.
Filter on CISA KEV and remediation through our API
You can now filter vulnerabilities that are the CISA KEV list or based on their remediation via our Helm API, making it easier than ever for you to identify and prioritize high-impact vulnerabilities.
Updated terminology from Vendor to Supplier in SBOM CSV export
To align with industry standards, the SBOM CSV export now labels the Vendor column as Supplier. This terminology update improves consistency and clarity.
v4.2.4 | 2.83.0
November 7, 2024
Summary
Export EOS/EOL data to FDA SBOM report
Enhanced CPE parsing and matching
Added ability to filter dependency components by licenses
Re-added match and review information to dependency component details
Bug fixes and performance enhancements
Export EOS/EOL data to FDA SBOM report
If you have uploaded an SBOM that contains end-of-support (EOS) or end-of-life (EOL) data, this information will be automatically populated in your FDA SBOM report. We're in the process of adding the ability to manually add EOS/EOL info, so stay tuned!
Enhanced CPE parsing and matching
We've enhanced CPE parsing to enable the matching of incomplete CPEs to dependency components. Although a CPE has 13 segments, not all CPEs contain all of those segments, thus Helm will now interpret CPEs that have at least 5 of the expected segments, filling in missing segments with a wildcard (*).
We've enhanced CPE enrichment to enable dependency component matching even in scenarios where the dependency components have the scenario wherein CPEs have multiple vendors.
Added ability to filter dependency components by licenses
You can now filter your dependency components by license, including those with specific licenses, no license, or unknown license status. This filtering capability helps quickly identify and mitigate license-related risks, such as copyleft licenses or unknown license statuses that may impact IP.
Re-added match and review information to dependency component details
The match and review details have been re-added to the dependency component details panel to help you quickly access key information.
Bug fixes and performance enhancements
Resolved intermittent failure of large CycloneDX and SPDX SBOMs due to timeouts.
Improved load time of vulnerability and dependency component pages.
Fixed display issue with rescored CVSS vector strings, ensuring accurate low, high, and none values.
v4.1.4 | 2.82.0
October 4, 2024
Summary
Enhanced dependency component panel
License management is now available!
Customize your FDA SBOM export
Bug fixes, UX enhancements, and help updates
Enhanced dependency component panel
Manage your dependency components more easily with our unified details panel, providing a comprehensive view of each dependency component. You can now quickly scan information in view mode, then switch to edit mode if you need to make any modifications.
License management is now available!
Helm now supports the ingestion of licensing information from CycloneDX and SPDX SBOMs. Via our partnership integration with Tidelift, Helm will analyze your dependency components to determine if you are missing license information, then will automatically fix that for you, ensuring you have a comprehensive view of your legal risk. We support both SPDX and custom licenses. You can also manually enter or modify license details as needed. Check out Manage licenses for complete information on our new licensing feature!
Customize your FDA SBOM export
We've just made our expert FDA SBOM even better! When exporting your FDA SBOM, you can now include CycloneDX and VEX vulnerability remediation analysis, as well as review information for dependency components. These enhancements will help ensure you're ready for your FDA submission. Thank you to our customers for highlighting their need to include review statuses and notes! We very much appreciate your insights and expertise in continuing to enhance your SBOM vulnerability management and streamline your FDA submission process!
Bug fixes, UI enhancements, and help updates
Bug fixes:
Fixed the date filter on the Vulnerabilities page such that the start date is now midnight and end date is 11:59:59 pm. This fixes both the date range presets as well as the timeframes covered in the new vulnerability emails.
UI enhancements
Improved dependency component matching to handle dependency component names prepended with special characters, such as "@".
Updated dependency component lists to show all dependency components, even when they match the same NVD product and version. Your SBOM export will also include this higher level of specificity.
Help updates: To quickly get you up to speed on these new updates, we've added or extensively revised the following topics:
v4.1.3 | 2.81.1
September 24, 2024
Summary
Implemented human-readable URL parameters
Bug fixes and performance enhancements
Implemented human-readable URL parameters
We've implemented human-readable URL parameters across the entire UI, which now reference unique IDs of products, product versions, components, and vulnerabilities, as well as applied filters and searches, and more. You'll also see this improvement when you sign in to Helm from new vulnerability emails you receive. This deep linking enables you to more easily share information. These enhancements prepare Helm for upcoming features like breadcrumb navigation and expanded bulk actions, beginning with bulk remediation.
Bug fixes and performance enhancements
Resolved a performance issue to enable Helm to handle large volumes of vulnerabilities, minimizing timeouts and unexpected errors.
Fixed issue wherein some SPDX exports were failing under specific conditions, particularly with larger SBOMs.
Enhanced SBOM dependency component rescanning and matching, improving reliability when the initial scanning process fails during an SBOM upload or when the dependency component is manually added.
v4.0.46 | 2.80.4
September 9, 2024
Summary
Enhanced matching for Linux packages
Enhanced matching for Linux packages
We’re excited to announce a major improvement to our Linux package matching process, increasing efficiency by reducing manual work for users.
Previously, some Linux packages without identifiers in SBOMs were challenging to match. After collaborating with customers to address this issue, we’ve just released a solution that delivers a 29% improvement in matching accuracy.
As shown in the graph below, you can see a significant reduction in unmatched components and a clear increase in matched components after applying this enhancement. This means fewer manual interventions and more streamlined package management.
v4.0.46 | 2.79.2
August 30, 2024
Summary
Helm's new design system is live: Work smarter and stay focused
Multi-task and remediate risk faster across multiple Helm tabs
Help updates
Helm’s new design system is live: work smarter & stay focused
We’re thrilled to announce that Helm’s new design system is now live! 🎉
When you next sign in to Helm, you’ll notice a refreshed look-and-feel to enhance your experience and streamline your workflow. Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll see:
Light and dark themes: Choose between our newly updated dark theme or our brand-new light theme. To switch themes, click the sun/moon icon in the main navigation bar.
More intuitive badges and colors: We’ve standardized and enhanced our badges and color schemes for quicker component matching and vulnerability prioritization.
Enhanced UI elements: Enjoy a cleaner and more intuitive interface with refined controls, error handling, and new icons to improve navigation and usability.
Customizable data display: Take control of how you view and interact with data. You can now adjust table column visibility, perform multi-sorts, and choose your preferred display density.
Contextual actions: Easily access additional information or perform actions directly from tables by clicking on cell values.
Customizable data display
Our new design offers even more flexibility in how you view and manage your data:
Content refresh setting: Take charge of your data updates by setting auto-refresh intervals or turning it off entirely. You can also refresh manually refresh.
Pagination: Navigate large datasets with ease using our new pagination feature, ensuring you don’t lose your place.
Customizable columns: Tailor your tables to display exactly what you need. Use the Columns link to show or hide specific columns and hover over column headers to drag and drop them into your preferred order with the … icon.
Multi-column sorting: Focus on what’s important by applying complex sorts across multiple columns. Access this feature through the Sort fields link at the top of each table.
Flexible display density: Optimize your view by selecting a compact or expanded display mode and adjusting the number of rows per page to suit your preferences.
Advanced date picker: Gain precise control over date filtering with options for absolute/relative dates, custom ranges, and multi-month views.
Multi-task and remediate risk faster across multiple Helm tabs
If you’ve tried to have multiple Helm tabs open, you may have found yourself signed out. Great news! You can now work in Helm across multiple browser tabs.
Help updates
As part of our new design system, we've completely revised several related topics to help you match dependency components and remediate vulnerabilities faster:
v3.6.34 | 2.79.2
August 13, 2024
Summary
Automated enrichment of missing CPEs and PURLs
Automated enrichment of missing licenses for open-source components
Automated enrichment of missing CPEs and PURLs
During the component matching process, if a component in your SBOM does not have a CPE or PURL (not ingested or manually added), Helm's AI copilot will now automatically generate and assign the appropriate enriched CPE or PURL to that component. You can view any Enriched CPE or Enriched PURL in the component details. This information will be included see this information in the components table in now export this enriched info for any FDA reports that include SBOM components, including your enriched SBOM, FDA SBOM, or VDR report.
Auto-enrich open-source components with missing licenses
For your open-source SBOM components that have PURLs, but do not have licenses identified yet, Helm will check whether those components have licenses. If so, Helm will automatically enrich those components with that license information. Helm will not change the license information for any components that already have one or more licenses identified. This information will be included in any FDA reports that include SBOM components, including your enriched SBOM, FDA SBOM, or VDR report. As mentioned in our last release, we are in the process of adding this functionality to the UI, and you will soon be able to view, edit, and track software licenses across your supply chain.
v3.6.34 | 2.78.0
July 15, 2024
Summary
Export license information in SBOM
Bug fixes
Export license information in FDA reports
You can now export license information for any FDA reports that include SBOM components, including your original or enriched SBOM, your FDA SBOM, or your VDR report. We are in the process of adding this functionality to the UI, and you will soon be able to view, edit, and track software licenses across your supply chain.
Bug fixes
Fixed issue where CPE or PURL information would not display in some instances
v3.6.34 | 2.77.0
June 21, 2024
Summary
Added remediation evidence to vuln export
Enhanced severity filtering
Ingest CycloneDX SBOM entries that have an empty or omitted Type field
Ignore vendors set to OpenEmbedded() in SPDX SBOMs generated with Yocto Linux
Bug fixes and UX improvements
Added remediation evidence to vulnerability export
We've enhanced our vulnerability export functionality to include remediation evidence for each vulnerability. This provides a clearer picture of the actions taken to address vulnerabilities, enabling you to more easily demonstrate compliance and the remediation steps taken or planned to secure your products.
Enhanced severity filtering
We've refined vulnerability severity filtering to prioritize rescores over base scores. This ensures that you can better prioritize vulnerabilities based on their actual risk, helping you focus on the most exploitable issues first.
Ingest CycloneDX SBOM entries that have an empty or omitted Type field
We now support the ingestion of CycloneDX SBOM entries that have an empty or omitted Type field.
Ignore vendors set to OpenEmbedded() in SPDX SBOMs generated with Yocto Linux
If you are generating your SPDX SBOM using Yocto on Linux, it will often generate OpenEmbedded() as a vendor, which is not helpful for matching purposes. We will now ignore this value, maintaining a cleaner and more relevant database.
Bug fixes and UX improvements
Fixed exporting CVSS scores in VEX and VDR reports for SBOM entries that do not have a CVSS score. Our exports now reflect a blank score field instead of the previous default of -1.0 when a CVSS score is not available.
Enhanced new vulnerability email subject to handle edge cases, including ensuring that vulnerability emails are sent on the expected day, regardless of time zone.
v3.6.32 | 2.76.0
June 6, 2024
Summary
Automatic enrichment of CVE vulnerabilities with CPEs
Automatically create product versions and upload SBOMs with our GitHub action
Enhanced information in vulnerability emails
Fixes for SPDX SBOM upload failures
Support for SPDX SBOMs with NOASSERTION in supplier field
Added CycloneDX and VEX remediation status filters
Added Source column for vulnerabilities
Support for .zst SBOMs generated by Yocto on Linux
Bug fixes and UX improvements
Automatic enrichment of CVE vulnerabilities with CPEs
Our advanced Large Language Model (LLM) now enriches vulnerability data from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), which has not kept pace with CPE and other data enrichment for the past six months, leaving those of us in the cybersecurity space in a bit of a quandary.
To remedy this issue, we have fine-tuned an LLM to replicate and possibly enhance the data processing traditionally performed by the NVD. Below you can see how this interim approach can help you to deal with this gap. Refer to our blog for more details.
Our approach identifies vulnerabilities impacting your products and automatically enriches the information retrieved from the NVD with CPE data, aiding in more precise identification of vulnerabilities. This provides you with a more complete view of your overall risk, and ensures that you're focusing your time and effort on the most exploitable vulnerabilities that are affecting your product. Vulnerabilities that came from the NVD, and through our CPE enrichment, were identified as impacting your products will have an AI badge in the new Source column on the Vulnerabilities page.
Automatically create product versions and upload SBOMs with our GitHub action
You can easily integrate Helm into your CI/CD process to streamline and automate the process of creating product versions and uploading SBOMs to Helm. You can either use our GitHub action independently or integrate it into your existing GitHub action workflow, enabling you to maintain comprehensive and up-to-date documentation of your product's components, dependencies, and vulnerabilities with minimal effort.
Enhanced information in vulnerability emails
If you're one of the cybersecurity experts who doesn't have any new vulnerabilities for the day/week/month cycle, congratulations! These updates include handling the scenario of zero new vulnerabilities and providing clearer details on the period covered by each email.
Fixes for SPDX SBOM upload failures
We've made a number of back-end improvements to help ensure that your SPDX SBOMs upload successfully.
Support for SPDX SBOM files with supplier set to NOASSERTION
We now treat suppliers set to NOASSERTION in SPDX SBOM files as undefined when importing this information into Helm, thus the Supplier column for that vulnerability will show as a blank.
Added CycloneDX and VEX remediation status filters
You can now filter vulnerabilities based on their CycloneDX and CycloneDX VEX remediation statuses, enabling more precise vulnerability management.
Added Source column for vulnerabilities
We've added a Source column to the Vulnerabilities page. This allows you to identify whether a vulnerability originated from an external data source (currently only NVD) or came from the NVD, but was enriched via our LLM AI. Vulnerabilities enriched with CPE data and identified as impacting your products will display an AI badge in this column on the Vulnerabilities page.
Support for .zst SBOMs
Helm now supports SPDX SBOMs that are in .zst compressed files, which are automatically created when using Yocto Linux native SBOM generation capabilities."
Bug fixes & UX/docs improvements
Fixed issues with multiple toast notifications for some SBOM uploads
v3.6.17 | 2.75.2
May 13, 2024
Summary
Auto-update vulnerability temporal metrics across product version
Enhanced dependency component matching for fewer unmatched components
Purl and cpe id’s now considered in sbom entry uniqueness
Enhanced CycloneDX SBOM and VDR reports with bom-refs for unmatched components
Performance improvements on SBOM page loading
Enhanced CycloneDX VEX and VDR reports with vulnerability rescores
New sign in page
Bug fixes and UX improvements
Auto-update vulnerability temporal metrics across product version
Let us take some of the load of managing vulnerabilities off of you! When you create or modify a rescoring profile for product version, you can set all V3 vulnerabilities for that version to automatically rescore with any changes to their temporal score metrics coming from the NVD. This enhancement streamlines your vulnerability management process, ensuring that temporal scores reflect the most up-to-date information, saving you time spent manually monitoring and updating this information, thereby reducing the risk of missing critical updates, so you can ensure you're focusing on the vulnerabilities that matter most.
Auto-update vulnerability temporal scores
You can also set individual vulnerabilities to automatically update their temporal scores based on NVD data refreshes. This timesaving feature ensures your vulnerability information stays current with minimal manual effort.
Enhanced dependency component matching for fewer unmatched components
We've improved our dependency component matching algorithm to better handle scenarios where a vendor of an unknown dependency component doesn't directly match known software. We will now automatically match unknown dependency components that have CPE and PURL matches, but have an incorrect supplier. Previously, these dependency components were initially marked with a Not found in NVD status, but could actually be resolved to the correct component via our match suggestions. Helm now identifies the corresponding known software, which will either be uniquely identified or will have a Multiple matches status (if there are still multiple possibilities). Our enhanced matching process should result in fewer unmatched components, thus ensuring more accurate and efficient component resolution.
Enhanced determination of dependency component uniqueness
We have added CPE and PURL IDs when determining if an SBOM dependency component is unique or is a duplicate.
Enhanced CycloneDX SBOM and VDR reports with bom-refs for unmatched components
In response to feedback, we've added the CycloneDX bom-ref parameter to all dependency components in your SBOM export, enabling you to point each vulnerability back to a dependency component, regardless of whether it is matched to known software. Initially, the bom-ref only displayed for matched dependency components. For any unknown (unmatched or not uniquely matched) software, this will be the unique ID that was generated for that SBOM dependency component when it was added to Helm. This will now be in your SBOM or VDR report.
Performance improvements on SBOM page loading
We've made a number of coding and query improvements to load SBOMs more quickly, which may also improve load time for your vulnerabilities.
Enhanced CycloneDX VEX and VDR reports with vulnerability rescores
If you've rescored your vulnerabilities either across a product version or individually, your CycloneDX VEX and VDR reports will now include vulnerability rescore information. This will now align with the Vulnerabilities report. You will now see a ratings section in your JSON file that will include a rating for any rescore on that vulnerability. For vulnerabilities rescored both at the product version level and individually, all associated scores will be included. While CVSS v2 scores remain static, they are also included in the ratings section to provide a comprehensive view. The source for all score data is set to Medcrypt Helm.
New sign in page
We've replaced our initial sign in page with a new look-and-feel. After clicking Sign in, you'll be prompted to enter your username and password on our authentication page.
v3.6.10 | 2.74.2
April 30, 2024
Summary
Rename products and versions
Enhanced granularity for CVSS score filtering
UX improvements
Rename products and versions
In response to customer feedback, we've added the ability for you to rename products and versions right from the product and version drop-downs on each page of Helm. Simply hover over the product or version in the respective drop-down to display the edit icon, then edit the product name or version.
Enhanced granularity for CVSS score filtering
We've improved the CVSS score filtering functionality to support floating-point values, allowing you to pinpoint vulnerabilities with greater precision. Now you can filter vulnerabilities using specific scores like 7.9, which will return everything from 7.9 to 10. This will enable you to precisely target and remediate vulnerabilities that fall within a more granular threshold.
UX improvements
Enhanced API key generation from the UI
Improved loading performance
v3.6.8 | 2.73.0
April 11, 2024
Summary
Enhanced support for large SBOMs
CycloneDX 1.5 support
Daily and monthly digests for new vulnerabilities
Bug fixes, UX and doc improvements
Enhanced support for large SBOMs
Our platform now let you upload SBOMs of up to 50MB in size. This significant enhancement enables organizations with larger software inventories to efficiently manage and analyze their software bill of materials within our platform.
CycloneDX 1.5 support
You can now upload your CycloneDX 1.5 SBOM to Helm. Any information in your file that is not currently supported in Helm will still be retained if you want to export either your original or enhanced SBOM.
Daily and monthly digests for new vulnerabilities
In response to customer feedback on our new weekly email digests that keep you informed of the latest new vulnerabilities impacting your products, we've expanded this offering to include daily and monthly digests. You can choose one or more email frequencies based on your needs, and can manage your email preferences in your user profile.
Bug fixes, UX, and doc improvements
Fixed issue where loading page status displayed on the Vulnerabilities table after sorting columns. The Vulnerabilities Detected/Updated field now sorts only by date detected and not by date updated.
Resolved caching issue where some dependency components would not display when the SBOM page was filtered.
Adjusted permissions to allow non-admin users with SBOM and Vulnerability modification access to create rescore profiles for product versions.
Numerous UI improvements
Updated doc: Get email updates on new vulnerabilities
v3.3.0 | 2.71.1
March 22, 2024
Summary
Processing modals
Bug fixes and UI improvements
New & updated docs
Processing modals
For larger SBOMs that can take longer to load, we've added a processing modal so you'll know when your upload is completed and whether it was successful. Similarly, we've added a processing modal for other operations that could take longer, including when you're rescoring a lot of vulnerabilities across an entire product version or if you've just added a dependency component manually and we're attempting to automatically match it to known software in the NVD or package manager.
Bug fixes and UI improvements
We've improved performance when filtering your SBOM. We also fixed a bug where filters were not persisting if you copied a Helm URL that included a match status to another tab, or if you navigated from a filtered item from the global search results (Discover) page.
We've added and enhanced "empty state" pages to help you get started quickly, improved visibility of system status, enhanced our RBAC permissions, and made other UI improvements.
New & updated help docs
Since we're continually adding and enhancing great new features, we want to make sure you can take advantage of all the new functionality, so we'll let you know any important doc updates in this section.
Enhanced docs:
Manage users: Added user roles to help you manage user permissions
Link unmatched software to known software: Added new info on aliasing and removing an alias.
v3.2.0 | 2.71.1
March 14, 2024
Summary
Added VDR (Vulnerability Disclosure Report) report
Email notifications for new vulnerabilities
Support for CycloneDX XML SBOMs
Enhanced API documentation
Bug fixes and other improvements
VDR reports
As part of our continuous commitment to fulfill your FDA SBOM and cybersecurity vulnerability needs, we've added VDR (Vulnerability Disclosure Reports) to our suite of reports. Offering comprehensive insights into identified vulnerabilities, these reports equip you with proactive mitigation strategies, bolstering your defense against emerging threats.
Stay on top of new vulnerabilities
Never miss a beat with our new vulnerability email notification system. Stay ahead of the curve by receiving timely alerts for any new vulnerabilities impacting your software supply chain. Manage your preferences effortlessly through your user avatar > My profile in the top navigation area of Helm.
Support for CycloneDX XML SBOMs
You can now upload your CycloneDX in XML format for improved compatibility and versatility.
Enhanced API documentation
Automate your calls to our Helm application using our robust API. You can upload an SBOM for a new or existing product and version, get a list of all unmatched entries, and a list of all vulnerabilities.
Bug fixes and other improvements
We've made numerous enhancements to improve the UI and SBOM loading performance.
We'd love to hear your feedback!
Thank you for your continued support and feedback as we strive to deliver top-notch solutions to meet your evolving cybersecurity needs! Let us know if you have suggestions on how to improve your experience!
v3.0.1 | 2.70.0
February 15, 2024
Summary
VEX reports
Improved vulnerability query performance
VEX reports
Introducing VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) reports – the latest addition to your cybersecurity arsenal! These reports focus on vulnerability exploitability, ease of exploitation, and potential impact. Now, effortlessly communicate vulnerabilities with a VEX remediation status, empowering your customers to focus on fixing the vulnerabilities that matter most.
Stay tuned! As a part of our continuous commitment to fulfill your FDA SBOM and cybersecurity vulnerability needs, we will be adding VDR (Vulnerability Disclosure Reports) to our suite of reports soon. Offering detailed insights into identified vulnerabilities, VDR reports equip you with comprehensive understanding and proactive mitigation strategies, ensuring robust security posture against emerging threats.
v2.68.0 | 2.69.1
January 29, 2024
Summary
FDA-ready reports
Export SDPX SBOM
New About modal
FDA-ready reports
Get the Medcrypt advantage with the only FDA expert-crafted SBOM that ensures you meet FDA SBOM requirements! In addition, you'll now get a suite of reports to make meeting FDA cybersecurity requirements a breeze, including your enhanced SBOM in CycloneDX or CSV format, as well as your vulnerabilities in CSV format.
In our continuous commitment to fulfill your FDA SBOM and cybersecurity vulnerability needs, we will also be adding VDR (Vulnerability Disclosure Reports) and VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) reports to our suite of reports soon. VDR reports provide detailed insights into identified vulnerabilities, providing a comprehensive understanding of vulnerability details, impact, and mitigation strategies to proactively respond to potential security threats. VEX reports focus on the exploitability of vulnerabilities, how easily they can be exploited, and their potential impact.
Export SPDX SBOM
You can now export your original or enhanced SPDX SBOM in JSON. For an enhanced SBOM, you can also include PURL and CPE info for any matches, as well as include all associated vulnerabilities.
New About modal
You may have noticed that the bottom bar where your Helm version displays has been removed. Don’t worry, you can still get to your version from the sidebar > Help > About. This will launch an About modal, where you can see your current Helm version.
v2.66.1 | 2.66.1
January 4, 2024
Summary
Added ability to remediate vulnerabilities
Bug fixes, UI, and performance improvements
Remediate vulnerabilities
You can now remediate vulnerabilities to add granular status information, including tracking remediation changes and providing evidence for why changes were made. For each vulnerability, you can now set a CycloneDX 1.4 and/or CycloneDX 1.4 VEX status, or both. We're adding a more robust audit trail, and you can see the next step toward this in the Vulnerability details modal. You can see any interim statuses and notes you provided manually, as well as automatic tracking of any new remediation changes. If you set any interim statuses, the last one you set will now be reflected in that vulnerability's VEX status.
Bug fixes and other improvements
Fixed issue where a rescore profile would fail when rescoring large numbers of vulnerabilities
Several UI and experience improvements
v2.65.2 | 2.65.13
December 7, 2023
Summary
Rescore all vulnerabilities in a product version via rescore profiles
Rescore individual vulnerabilities
Support for SPDX SBOMs
Enhanced SBOM export now includes CPE and PURL data
New exploits and threats info, including EPSS and CISA KEV
Bug fixes and other improvements
Rescore all vulnerabilities in a product version via rescore profiles
You can create and apply rescore profiles to a product version based on your product's particular environment and usage, ensuring you're focusing on the most exploitable and impactful vulnerabilities. Any newly detected vulnerabilities for that product version will be automatically rescored with that profile.
Rescore individual vulnerabilities
You can now rescore the CVSS v3 score of any individual vulnerability associated with a particular product version so that it reflects your product's particular environment and usage. This will override any rescore profile already applied to the associated product version.
Support for SPDX SBOM format
You can now upload SPDX SBOM files, including those generated using Yocto on Linux. You can take all of your generated SPDX files, zip them using WinZip or gzip, then upload that zipped file to Helm. We'll do the rest!
Enhanced SBOM export now includes CPE and PURL data
When you upload your SBOM, we'll attempt to find exact matches in the NVD, as well as in supported package managers. If we find an exact CPE or PURL match in a package manager or if you manually specify the CPE and/or PURL for a dependency component, you'll now be able to export an enhanced SBOM that includes CPE and PURL data.
Focus on the most exploitable vulnerabilities
You can now benefit from robust exploit and threat information from a variety of sources, including CISA KEV, ExploitDB, Metasploit, and Top 25 CWEs. You can also ensure that you're focusing on the most impactful and exploitable vulnerabilities via EPSS scores.
Bug fixes and other improvements
Improved performance when loading SBOM and vulnerability information
Improved onboarding to get you started or unstuck quickly. We now provide in-page guidance to help you upload an SBOM, view dependency components for a particular product version, or expand your search criteria when there are no results. You'll see these in our SBOM, Vulnerabilities and Discover (Global search) pages.
Numerous user interface improvements
v2.62.6 | 2.62.6
November 2, 2023
Summary
Windows KB patch support
In-app status notifications
Performance and user experience improvements
Native support for Microsoft Windows KBs
Although a lot of medical devices run on Microsoft Windows operating systems, the NVD does not account for vulnerabilities having been patched by Windows KBs, making it very difficult to understand what vulnerabilities might still be impacting your device. You can now add KBs to your devices running a Windows OS, aligning your digital product version with your physical test device and thus ensuring that you have an accurate list of vulnerabilities that impact your Windows device.
In-app status notifications
You’ll now see in-app status notifications in the top-right corner to let you know that an action has been completed, such as uploading an SBOM or applying KBs to a product version.
Performance improvements and bug fixes
We’ve made significant performance improvements, as well as several enhancements to improve your user experience.
Let us know how we’re doing!
We welcome your feedback on these new features, and would love to hear about other feature suggestions that would further enhance your experience.
Get a V&V report
If you would like a V&V report for your QMS, contact support.
v2.60.1
November 2023
Summary
Allowing SBOMs that pass NTIA minimum requirements
Performance improvements and bug fixes
Allowing SBOMs that pass NTIA minimum requirements
We improved our capabilities to handle SBOMs that pass NTIA minimum requirements. If the SBOM you are uploading is an invalid CycloneDX SBOM, Helm will still accept it and process it for vulnerabilities.
Performance improvements and bug fixes
This release has improvements to performance and a few bug fixes on the dashboard page.
v2.59.2
November 2023
Summary
Performance improvements and bug fixes
Online help documentation added
Performance improvements and bug fixes
This release has a lot of improvements to performance and a few bug fixes. You should be having a faster, more responsive experience.
Online help documentation added
We’ve added a lot of great information to ensure you can get started, get your SBOM dependency components matched quickly, and begin (or continue) to assess and mitigate your vulnerability risk across your software supply chain. Check it out on helm.docs.medcrypt.com!
v2.57.3
November 2023
Summary
New Get started modal
Export SBOM with vulnerabilities
Combined Upload SBOM modal
Improved feedback when SBOM fails to upload
Other usability improvements and bug fixes
New Get started modal
If you haven’t uploaded any SBOM yet or created one manually, you will see a new Get started modal pop up when you sign in to Helm. You’ll have four different options:
You need help with your FDA submission: You can request help from our expert Services team and leverage our best practices, templates, and checklists in improving your FDA submission.
You have a CycloneDX format. You can upload your SBOM file all in one step.
You have an SBOM in another format. You can contact us and we’ll get right back to you to get you moving.
You don’t know what an SBOM is or don’t have one yet. We’re here to help. Our expert Services team will help you create your SBOM, assess your current state, and help you identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks.
Export your SBOM with vulnerabilities
You can now choose to export your original SBOM or your enhanced SBOM with identified vulnerabilities. This will include the source name (currently always the NVD), a link to the vulnerability, both its v2 and v3 CVSS scores and vector strings, when the vulnerability was first detected, when it was updated, and more. Refer to Export your SBOM for more information.
Combined Upload SBOM modal
We’ve simplified your upload experience. If you’re uploading your first SBOM, you’ll see an Add SBOM drop-down button, from which you can select Upload SBOM. You can now browse to your SBOM file and specify your product name and product version in one step. Once you’ve uploaded at least one SBOM, this drop-down button changes to Manage SBOMs. In that case, you’ll be able to either select an existing product name and version, or create a new product name/version pair.
Improved feedback when an SBOM file fails to upload
If you upload an SBOM file, you can hover over the FAIL status to get more information on why the file failed to upload, including scenarios such as: missing required fields, additional fields present that are not defined in the JSON schema when the schema does not allow additional properties, and field values not matching expected data types.
v2.56.6
October 2023
Summary
Added match status tokens and enhanced status indicators
Added CPE and PURL package manager support
Enhanced details for dependency components
Enhanced filters for SBOMs
In-product help added
Added NVD and NOT IN NVD tokens and enhanced status indicators
In response to customer feedback on the importance of knowing whether a dependency component is or is not found in the NVD, we’ve added two tokens: NVD and NOT IN NVD. We’ve changed the NVD status column to Match status, and improved the status labels. You’ll now see:
Green checkmark next to Matched status when you have an exact match. You’ll also see the respective tokens that we used to make that match or that a user matched via selecting a match suggestion or creating an alias.
Yellow indicator next to Multiple matches status when you have multiple strong matches. You’ll be able to see the sources that the match suggestions are coming from, and will need to resolve this by selecting one of our suggestions or creating your own alias.
A red error indicator next to Not found status and NOT IN NVD token indicates that weren’t able to find a match in the NVD. This could mean that there are no known vulnerabilities or that your software has a different name in the NVD, so you’ll need to resolve these to make sure that you understand whether it is a risk or not.
Added CPE and PURL package manager support
Our valued customers asked for this and we delivered! We now support CPE and PURL (Package URL) matching. We support the following PURL package managers: Cargo, NPM, NuGet, and PyPI. If you upload an SBOM, you'll automatically find any matches in these package managers. You'll see a token, such as NPM, next to each dependency component that matches a package manager. See Match sources for more information.
Note: This is not retroactive, so in order to take advantage of this cool new feature, you'll need to upload a new version of your SBOM.
Enhanced details for dependency components
We’ve added a lot of information to your dependency component details, so that you can tell exactly how it was matched as well as letting you know the last review note any of your team members added. You can hover over any token
Enhanced filters for SBOMs
You can now filter by match source, such as NVD, CPE, Alias, one of our supported package managers, user-selected matches, and NOT IN NVD. You can also filter on review status.
In-product help added
We’ve added help icons to many columns and fields throughout the UI to get you started and unstuck. If you need more clarification on the help or if you have a question on something that doesn’t currently have help, let us know so that we can get it clarified or added.
Let us know if you see other areas we could improve!
If you run into issues or would like to request new features or feature enhancements, we'd love to hear from you! Thank you so much for taking the time to help us improve your experience!
Interested in providing feedback on upcoming features?
We are working on adding some great new functionality, including:
Windows KB patching,
a customer-facing API to automatically ingest SBOMs as part of your CI/CD process,
the ability to copy/paste from a CSV or other file to create an SBOM,
more human-readable information,
complete CycloneDX ingestion and export,
SPDX support,
and other cool new things.
We'd love to get your feedback on these to make sure what we're creating will improve your management and mitigation of your software supply chain risk. It will also give you a great opportunity to let us know features and feature enhancements you'd like us to consider adding! Note that this link will create a support ticket that will let us know you're interested, then we'll contact you directly to set up some time to do some feature walkthroughs. Thank you so much for your insights and expertise!
v2.55.5
September 2023
Summary
Enhanced global search
Changed date first detected time
Added date dashboard was last updated
Removed character restrictions on input fields
Added SSO support for PingID
New global search
Global search is now expanded to include searching across all your Product SBOMs for a particular dependency component. You can still search for a specific CVE via CVE-ID, now you get a summary of the vulnerability as well as a list of any products that might be potentially impacted.
Changes to first detected time
The first detected date in Helm on the Vulnerabilities page now reflects the date when Helm detected the vulnerability for your dependency component.
Last update timestamp
On the Metrics dashboard you can now see when the dashboard was last updated.
Character restrictions in input fields
Helm had strict character restrictions in input fields that have now been removed.
SSO support for PingID
Helm supports SSO for organizations on the enterprise plan. We now have a working integration with PingID.
v2.54.7
September 2023
Summary
Enhanced look-and-feel with new page layouts
Performance improvements and bug fixes
New page layouts
Both the Products page and the Vulnerabilities page now have a new look and feel as well as some new functionality for vulnerability filters.
Performance improvements and bug fixes
This release has a lot of improvements to performance and a few bug fixes. You should be having a faster, more responsive experience.
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