What is SCA?

SCA is like a dedicated quality assurance team that covers security and compliance for your software’s ingredients. It ensures you’re building your software with the most up-to-date, safest, and compliant components available. This not only ensures a better end product but also saves you from potential headaches, be they security breaches or legal battles, down the road.

Unlike in cooking, in software, using outdated or vulnerable components can have severe outcomes. Imagine you’re a chef preparing a large banquet. While you may grow some of your ingredients in your backyard garden (equivalent to the custom code you write), you’re also sourcing many ingredients from various markets and suppliers (akin to third-party or open source components). Now, just as you’d want to ensure that every ingredient is fresh, free from contamination, and ethically sourced, in software, you want to ensure every component is secure, updated, and compliant...