Best Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Tools for Cloud

ZeroPath (YC S24) is an AI-native application security platform that delivers comprehensive code protection beyond traditional SAST. Founded by security engineers from Tesla and Google, ZeroPath combines large language models with advanced program analysis to find and automatically fix vulnerabilities. ZeroPath provides complete security coverage: 1. AI-powered SAST for business logic flaws & broken authentication 2. SCA with reachability analysis 3. Secrets detection and validation 4. Infrastructure as Code 5. Automated patch generation. any more... ZeroPath delivers 2x more real vulnerabilities with 75% fewer false positives. Our research team has been successful in finding vulns like critical account takeover in better-auth (CVE-2025-61928, 300k+ weekly downloads), identifying 170+ verified bugs in curl, and discovering 0-days in production systems at Netflix, Hulu, and Salesforce. Trusted by 750+ companies and performing 200k+ code scans monthly.

Secure your stack with Aikido's code-to-cloud security platform. Find and fix vulnerabilities fast & automatically. Aikido detects vulnerabilities, malware, end-of-life runtimes & OSS licenses and generates SBOMs. Analyse third-party components such as libraries, frameworks, and dependencies for vulnerabilities. Aikido does reachability analysis, triages to filter out false positives, and provides clear remediation advice. Auto-fix vulnerabilities with one click.

Wiz is a new approach to cloud security that finds the most critical risks and infiltration vectors with complete coverage across the full stack of multi-cloud environments. Find all lateral movement risks such as private keys used to access both development and production environments. Scan for vulnerable and unpatched operating systems, installed software, and code libraries in your workloads prioritized by risk. Get a complete and up-to-date inventory of all services and software in your cloud environments including the version and package. Identify all keys located on your workloads cross referenced with the privileges they have in your cloud environment. See which resources are publicly exposed to the internet based on a full analysis of your cloud network, even those behind multiple hops. Assess the configuration of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and VM operating systems against your baselines and industry best practices.

By scanning the source code of your applications, CAST Highlight instantly maps your software, generating the insights to understand, improve, and transform it. CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects use CAST to: - Get the true view of all technologies and frameworks - Quantify technical debt and the ways to pay it down - See what’s going to break next, and how best to fix it - Drive cloud adoption faster, knowing what to move and optimize - Prove progress to the board with facts and industry benchmarks Businesses move faster using CAST technology to understand, improve, and transform their software.

Xygeni All-In-One AppSec Platform protects software from code to cloud with a unified solution built for Application Security Posture Management (ASPM). It gives CISOs, CIOs, and DevSecOps teams full visibility and control across the software supply chain, without slowing delivery. Xygeni secures every SDLC stage, code, dependencies, secrets, builds, IaC, containers, and CI/CD systems, detecting vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and malware in real time. Powered by advanced AI, Xygeni prioritizes exploitable risks, cuts 90% of alert noise, and drives automated remediation through AI SAST, Auto-Fix, and Xygeni Bot. Developers scan and fix issues directly in their IDE, keeping code secure from the start. Early Malware Warning blocks zero-day supply-chain threats at publication, while smart dependency analysis prevents breaking updates. Seamless integration with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps ensures a frictionless experience.

Ensure the security of your code and open sources. Identify externally reachable data flows and vulnerabilities for effective risk mitigation. By identifying genuine attack paths to reachable code, we enable you to fix only the code and open-source software that is truly in use and reachable. Avoid unnecessary overloading of development teams with irrelevant vulnerabilities. Prioritize risk mitigation efforts more effectively, ensuring a focused and efficient security approach. Reduce the noise CSPM, CNAPP, and other runtime tools create by removing unreachable packages before running your applications. Meticulously analyze your software components and dependencies, identifying any known vulnerabilities or outdated libraries that could pose a threat. Backslash analyzes both direct and transitive packages, ensuring 100% reachability coverage. It outperforms existing tools that solely focus on direct packages, accounting for only 11% of packages.

CloudDefense.AI is an industry-leading multi-layered Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that safeguards your cloud infrastructure and cloud-native apps with unrivaled expertise, precision, and confidence. Elevate your code-to-cloud experience with the excellence of our industry-leading CNAPP, delivering unmatched security to ensure your business’s data integrity and confidentiality. From advanced threat detection to real-time monitoring and rapid incident response, our platform delivers complete protection, providing you with the confidence to navigate today’s complex security challenges. Seamlessly connecting with your cloud and Kubernetes landscape, our revolutionary CNAPP ensures lightning-fast infrastructure scans and delivers comprehensive vulnerability reports in mere minutes. No extra resources and no maintenance hassle. From tackling vulnerabilities to ensuring multi-cloud compliance, safeguarding workloads, and securing containers, we’ve got it all covered.

Modern software development must match the speed of the business. But the modern AppSec tool soup lacks integration and creates complexity that slows software development life cycles. Contrast simplifies the complexity that impedes today’s development teams. Legacy AppSec employs a one-size-fits-all vulnerability detection and remediation approach that is inefficient and costly. Contrast automatically applies the best analysis and remediation technique, dramatically improving efficiencies and efficacy. Separate AppSec tools create silos that obfuscate the gathering of actionable intelligence across the application attack surface. Contrast delivers centralized observability that is critical to managing risks and capitalizing on operational efficiencies, both for security and development teams. Contrast Scan is pipeline native and delivers the speed, accuracy, and integration demanded by modern software development.

ActiveState delivers Intelligent Remediation for vulnerability management, which enables DevSecOps teams to not only identify vulnerabilities in open source packages, but also to automatically prioritize, remediate, and deploy fixes into production without breaking changes, ensuring that applications are truly secured. Existing tools overwhelm DevSecOps teams with excessive vulnerability data, false positives, and a lack of prioritization, often leading to inaction and increased exposure to exploits. ActiveState’s solution provides your DevSecOps with a comprehensive view of open source vulnerability status across your application portfolio, enabling them to prioritize the vulnerabilities that matter, assess the risk of updates, and choose recommended remediation paths. The ActiveState platform centers on open source languages packaged as runtimes that can be deployed in various form factors. Low-to-no CVE container images are also available for plug-in and play needs.

Phylum defends applications at the perimeter of the open-source ecosystem and the tools used to build software. Its automated analysis engine scans third-party code as soon as it’s published into the open-source ecosystem to vet software packages, identify risks, inform users and block attacks. Think of Phylum like a firewall for open-source code. Phylum’s database of open-source software supply chain risks is the most comprehensive and scalable offering available, and can be deployed throughout the development lifecycle depending on an organization’s infrastructure and appsec program maturity: in front of artifact repository managers, directly with package managers or in CI/CD pipelines. The Phylum policy library allows users to toggle on the blocking of critical vulnerabilities, attacks like typosquats, obfuscated code and dependency confusion, copyleft licenses, and more. Users can also leverage OPA to create custom policies.