What is SCA (Software Composition Analysis) and how does it work

Modern applications commonly include not just original source code written by the developers who create the applications, but also code borrowed from a variety of third-party projects. If you want to ensure that your apps are free from security vulnerabilities linked to open source code – not to mention potential open source licensing violations – you need to be able to identify all of the software components that exist within it.

That’s where Software Composition Analysis, or SCA, comes in. …

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