Checkmarx Software Composition Analysis vs Synopsys Software Risk Manager comparison

Checkmarx Software Composition Analysis (SCA) helps organizations manage the risks associated with open source and third-party components in their software applications. While leveraging open source libraries and third-party dependencies is common practice, it can also introduce security vulnerabilities and license risks.

Checkmarx SCA offers a multifaceted approach to managing these risks by:

• Automatically scanning project repositories, build configurations, and manifests to create a comprehensive inventory of all components, including version information and associated licenses.

• Performing vulnerability assessments on each component, including identifying and prioritizing actual exploitable or reachable vulnerabilities.

• Protecting organizations from software supply chain attacks involving malicious packages, such as the XZ Utils backdoor.

• Identifying licenses associated and providing insights into license obligations, restrictions, and potential conflicts.

• Integrating seamlessly into existing development workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

• Providing actionable remediation guidance to help organizations address identified vulnerabilities and compliance issues effectively.

Software Risk Manager is an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that enables security and development teams to manage their application security programs at enterprise scale. By unifying policy, test orchestration, correlation, prioritization, and built-in static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) engines, organizations can streamline their security activities across the enterprise.