FOSSA vs. JavaScript vs. Phylum vs. SCANOSS Comparison Chart

Scalable, end-to-end management for third-party code, license compliance, and Open Source has become the critical supplier for modern software companies, changing everything about how people think about their code. FOSSA builds the infrastructure for modern teams to be successful with open source. FOSSA's flagship product helps teams track the open source used in their code and automate license scanning and compliance. Since then, over 7,000 open source projects (Kubernetes, Webpack, Terraform, ESLint) and companies ( Uber, Ford, Zendesk, Motorola) rely on FOSSA's tools to ship software. If you are in the software industry today, you're now using code that runs FOSSA. FOSSA is a venture-funded company backed by Cosanoa Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, etc. with affiliate angels including Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Steve Chen (YouTube), Amr Awadallah (Cloudera), Jaan Tallin (Skype), and Justin Mateen (Tinder).

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.