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Basic Support for Classifiers (Type) Added in CycloneDX 1.5 & 1.6

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Description

### Current Behavior

Dependency-Track tracks "Classifier" for both project and component. Classifier in Dependency-Track is based on CycloneDX component "type"

In v4.12.1, DT supports the following:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eda9d16c-3a72-48a5-b7dc-21fa940892ad)

These options are not up-to-date as they represent types that were [available in CycloneDX 1.4](https://cyclonedx.org/docs/1.4/json/#components_items_type)

Thus, type values that were added in CycloneDX 1.5 and 1.6 are not supported. As of [CycloneDX 1.6](https://cyclonedx.org/docs/1.6/json/#components_items_type), there are several missing.

### Proposed Behavior

Extend Classifier list to include Type values that were introduced in CycloneDX 1.5 and 1.6

* platform
* device-driver
* machine-learning-model
* data
* cryptographic-asset

This enhancement is "Basic" as making the new Type values _useful_ would require adding support for (say) CBOM for `cryptographic-asset`

### Checklist

- [x] I have read and understand the [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#filing-issues)
- [x] I have checked the [existing issues](https://github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track/issues) for whether this enhancement was already requested

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