An organization is adopting multiple open-source and proprietary libraries as part of a new web application. The security manager must evaluate the risk presented by these third-party components before deploying to production. Which approach provides the most direct, evidence-based insight into actual vulnerabilities in the specific versions that will be included in the release?
Conducting a software composition analysis and vulnerability scan
Using only open-source components with publicly accessible code repositories
Reviewing the vendor's claims about security features during contract negotiations
Requesting the vendor's security certification documentation
Performing a software composition analysis (SCA) combined with an automated vulnerability scan gives the organization concrete, version-specific evidence of known CVEs in the third-party libraries it actually intends to deploy. The other approaches either rely on point-in-time attestations, marketing claims, or the false assumption that open source alone assures security, and therefore provide less reliable assurance.
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