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Software Composition Analysis

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

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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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Open source 8 Open source and commercial 2 Commercial 9 Commercial, free tier 1 Freemium 4 Free 1

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Dependency scanning 10 License compliance 8 SBOM generation 9 Container Image Scanning 4 Automated Remediation 3 Policy Enforcement 3 Reachability Analysis 3 Dependency Inventory 2 Dependency Updates 2 Open Source Governance 2 Open Source Inventory 2 Sbom Scanning 2 Snippet Matching 2 Supply Chain Security 2 Advisory Matching 1 Artifact Provenance 1 Artifact Scanning 1 Attribution Generation 1 Automated Fix Prs 1 Backported Patches 1 Behavioral Analysis 1 Binary Analysis 1 Binary Sbom 0 Build Metadata 1 Build Plugin 1 Ci Cd Posture 1 Cli Scanner 1 Client Side Analysis 1 Cloud Readiness 0 Code Property Graph 1 Code To Cloud Lineage 1 Container Sbom 1 Continuous Component Monitoring 1 Cpe Matching 1 Cyclonedx 1 Dependency Prioritization 1 Dependency Remediation 1 Dependency Risk 0 Developer Permissions 0 Developer Security 1 Firmware Analysis 0 Hardened Container Images 1 Impact Analysis 1 Javascript Library Scanning 1 Lockfile Analysis 1 Malicious Package Detection 1 Minimal Base Images 1 Nvd Lookup 1 Open Source Health 1 Open Source Risk 0 Pipelineless Scanning 0 Portfolio Analysis 0 Product Security 0 Pull Request Automation 1 Regulatory Compliance 0 Repository Policy Enforcement 1 Sbom Analysis 1 Sbom Distribution 1 Secret Scanning 0 Static Analysis 1 Supply Chain Provenance 1 Vex Support 1 Vulnerability Alerts 1 Vulnerability Database 1 Vulnerability Management 1 Vulnerability Matching 1 Vulnerability Remediation 1

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CI/CD 25 CLI 20 SaaS 16 Self hosted 10 Library 4 Container 3 IDE plugin 3 Kubernetes 3 Browser extension 1

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JavaScript 20 Java 19 Python 19 Go 19 Ruby 17 PHP 16 Csharp 15 TypeScript 13 Rust 14 Scala 8 Swift 8 Kotlin 7 C++ 4 Cpp 4 Elixir 4 Dart 3 Abap 0 Clojure 1 Cobol 0

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Jenkins 15 GitHub Actions 16 GitHub 11 Jira 11 Azure DevOps 11 Bitbucket 8 GitLab 8 Docker 8 Gitlab Ci 8 Maven 5 Npm 4 Artifactory 3 Kubernetes 3 Slack 2 Syft 2 Ant 1 Burp Suite 1 Cdxgen 1 CircleCI 1 Defectdojo 1 Dependency Track 1 Eclipse 1 Gitea 1 Go Modules 1 Gradle 1 Grunt 1 Grype 1 Intellij 1 Nuget 1 Pip 1 Pypi 1 Renovate 1 SonarQube 1 Terraform 1 Visual Studio 1 Zap 1

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Established 17 Growing 6 Emerging 2

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Anchore

SCA

Command line SBOM generator that catalogs packages in container images, filesystems and archives, emitting SPDX, CycloneDX or its own JSON format.

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Syft

Anchore

Command line SBOM generator that catalogs packages in container images, filesystems and archives, emitting SPDX, CycloneDX or its own JSON format.

Open source Established

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