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SCA

Software Composition Analysis

Identify open-source dependencies and match them against known vulnerability and license data.

28 tools profiled

How it differs Checks the open source packages you depend on for known vulnerabilities and license obligations. Flaws in code you wrote are SAST territory.

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4 tools match

  • Black Duck

    Black Duck Software

    SCA

    A software composition analysis platform that identifies open source components through manifest parsing, file signature matching and binary analysis, with deep license obligation data.

    Commercial
    Established
  • SCA

    GitHub's built-in dependency scanner and update bot, matching your dependency graph against the GitHub Advisory Database and opening pull requests that bump vulnerable packages.

    Free
    Established
  • JFrog Xray

    JFrog

    SCA

    A composition analysis engine layered on JFrog Artifactory that recursively indexes stored artifacts and enforces security and license policy at download and promotion points.

    Commercial
    Established
  • Socket

    Socket

    SCA

    Analyzes what a package actually does, including install scripts, network and filesystem access and obfuscated code, to catch supply chain attacks that advisory based scanners never see.

    Open source and commercial
    Growing
  • Black Duck

    Black Duck Software

    A software composition analysis platform that identifies open source components through manifest parsing, file signature matching and binary analysis, with deep license obligation data.

    Commercial Established
    SCA
  • GitHub's built-in dependency scanner and update bot, matching your dependency graph against the GitHub Advisory Database and opening pull requests that bump vulnerable packages.

    Free Established
    SCA
  • JFrog Xray

    JFrog

    A composition analysis engine layered on JFrog Artifactory that recursively indexes stored artifacts and enforces security and license policy at download and promotion points.

    Commercial Established
    SCA
  • Socket

    Socket

    Analyzes what a package actually does, including install scripts, network and filesystem access and obfuscated code, to catch supply chain attacks that advisory based scanners never see.

    Open source and commercial Growing
    SCA
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