Keysight Technologies has added a new software product to a part of the market that is being reshaped by regulation, releasing SBOM Manager to help customers document and monitor the software components inside digital products. According to the company’s announcement, the platform is aimed at organisations that need to meet rising transparency and cybersecurity obligations, particularly under the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act, which is due to take effect in 2026.

The launch marks another step in Keysight’s push beyond its core reputation for electronic test and measurement equipment. The company says the system is built to handle binary software, firmware, containers and other packaged elements, including closed-source and embedded components, which is important in products where source code is not always available. It also continuously matches software inventories against vulnerability sources and supports vulnerability exploitability exchange, a feature designed to help security teams focus on threats that are more likely to matter in practice.

That emphasis on compliance reflects a broader shift across manufacturing and regulated industries. Keysight said similar expectations are already emerging in the United States through Executive Order 14028 and Food and Drug Administration guidance, while regulators in India, Japan and South Korea are also formalising software bill of materials requirements. Help Net Security reported that SBOMs are becoming a foundational expectation for market access, regulatory approval and customer trust in several sectors, including medical devices and critical infrastructure.

For Keysight, the commercial appeal may lie less in a single product launch than in the way SBOM Manager could embed the company more deeply into long-term customer workflows. Simply Wall St noted that the offering fits a broader narrative in which Keysight is expanding its software and recurring-service mix, while also creating potential cross-sell opportunities across its existing base in telecoms, automotive and healthcare. At the same time, the market is crowded, with established cybersecurity vendors already serving compliance teams, so adoption will depend on whether Keysight can prove that its tool is accurate, easy to maintain and aligned with fast-changing rules.

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