Accelerate Secure Development with Real-Time SCA | Arnica

Accelerate Secure Development with Real-Time SCA

Take the heavy lifting out of third-party package vulnerability management and mitigation. Automatically scan third-party packages, identify owners, leverage developer-native tool integrations, and deliver the best mitigation paths directly to your developers.

Give Your Developers Security Superpowers

Real-Time Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Identify vulnerable third-party dependencies in real-time as they are added or modified, enabling developers to address vulnerabilities early. Collaborate directly via Slack, Microsoft Teams, or source code management tools to boost vulnerability remediation.

Effortlessly Prioritize Your Most Important SCA Risks

Establish business importance and ownership for every repository and branch. Update finding severity based on CVSS, EPSS, & KEV. Identify package method level reachability and aggregate vulnerabilities on the direct dependency and display a dependency graph of all transitive dependencies at any depth.

Make SCA Mitigation Easy

Leverage rich ChatOps workflows to deliver the best patch, minor, and major version change directly to the developer in chat or within the pull request instead of simply suggesting the latest package version. Even communicate partial fixes to your developers (e.g. one that fixes all critical and high CVEs).

100% SCA Visibility, Always

Real-Time Developer Security Alerts

Maintain comprehensive and effective code vulnerability management by ensuring full code coverage across every repository and branch.

Detect SCA risks in real-time

Detect and prioritize newly added Software Composition Analysis (SCA) risks in real-time on every code push.

Dependency visibility at any depth

Visualize every direct and indirect dependency, at any depth within your code, using Arnica’s dependency graph, across your entire code base.

Protect new code assets

Automatically run full Software Composition Analysis (SCA) scanning on any new repository or branch added to your development environment.

Auto-update existing findings

Auto-update SCA findings when the code context changes (e.g. CVE risk changed, EPSS score changed, new CVE detected, code modified).

Deep SCA Finding Context

Provide your development and security engineering teams with deep context for every SCA vulnerability to establish clear priorities and inform powerful policy-driven mitigation workflows.

See the Developer Feedback Loop in Action.

Best Path SCA Mitigations

Keep your developers on the best path by empowering them to make informed package upgrade decisions based on security impact and operational risk.

Dynamic Backlog Management

Transform static vulnerability backlogs into intelligent, automated systems that adapt to real-world risk changes. Your team only responds when it matters most.

Customer testimonials

Brad Young
VP of Technology
"Arnica has been a piece of allowing us to accelerate like that. As I've taken my team and split it up into smaller groups - some two-person teams tackling fairly big functionality - Arnica being part of it has been really successful for us."

Jordan Bailey
Principal AppSec Engineer
"We established our top priority SCA findings and we were able to get granular about what to focus on. We established a highly refined definition of severity that fit our program and established an explicit agreement with our security champions and the engineering teams that we were only going to surface findings that had a fix."

Mark Stanislav
VP of Security Engineering & GRC
"For risks outputs from Static Application Security Testing (SAST) or Software Composition Analysis (SCA), we’ve been able to reduce mean-time-to-awareness of the risk for the developer as well as mean-time-to-remediation."

Everett Odom
Director of Information Security
"With Arnica’s full coverage and visibility, we’ve been able to establish a clear view on what our vulnerabilities are, when we found them, who’s worked on them, who caused them, who resolved them, and so much more."

FAQ

  1. What is Software Composition Analysis (SCA)? SCA is the process of identifying and analyzing third-party packages and open-source dependencies in your codebase to detect vulnerabilities, license issues, and other security risks associated with those components.

  2. How does Arnica detect vulnerable dependencies in real-time? Arnica scans third-party packages as they are added or modified in commits, identifying vulnerabilities immediately.

  3. What is reachability analysis and why does it matter? Reachability analysis determines whether vulnerable code in a dependency is actually used by your application. This helps reduce noise by deprioritizing vulnerabilities in code paths that are never executed.

  4. How does Arnica help prioritize which SCA vulnerabilities to fix first? Arnica updates severity based on multiple factors including CVSS scores, EPSS (likelihood of exploitation), KEV (known exploited vulnerabilities), reachability analysis, and your organization's business context to surface the most critical fixable risks.

  5. What are "best path" mitigation suggestions? Instead of just recommending the latest package version, Arnica analyzes patch, minor, and major upgrade paths and suggests the optimal version that fixes vulnerabilities while minimizing breaking changes and operational risk.

  6. Can Arnica show me the full dependency tree including transitive dependencies? Yes. Arnica provides a dependency graph that displays both direct and transitive dependencies at any depth, helping you understand the complete supply chain and where vulnerabilities originate.

  7. How does dynamic backlog management work for SCA findings? Dynamic backlog management means Arnica automatically adapts your vulnerability backlog based on changing risk context.

  8. Does Arnica support partial fixes for dependencies? Yes. Arnica can suggest partial upgrade paths that fix all critical and high severity CVEs even if a complete fix for all vulnerabilities is not available.

  9. How are SCA findings delivered to developers? Findings are delivered through developer-native tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, pull request comments, or source code management platforms.

  10. Can Arnica scan all repositories and branches for SCA risks? Yes. Arnica provides 100% code coverage across every repository and branch automatically.