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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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  • 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

  • GitHub Dependabot

    GitHub

    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 Dependabot

    GitHub

    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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