WHAT IS SOFTWARE COMPOSITION ANALYSIS (SCA)?
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) is an application security methodology for managing open source components. Using SCA, development teams can quickly track and analyze any open-source component brought into a project. SCA tools can discover all related components, their supporting libraries, and their direct and indirect dependencies. SCA tools can also detect software licenses, deprecated dependencies, as well as vulnerabilities, and potential exploits. The scanning process generates a bill of materials (BOM), providing a complete inventory of a project’s software assets.