ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
During a CI pipeline for containerized microservices, the security team wants an automated gate that reviews each service's dependency manifest (for example, requirements.txt or package.json), maps every third-party package to publicly known CVEs, and checks license terms before any code is compiled or executed. Which security testing methodology should they integrate to meet this requirement?
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) focuses on the open-source and third-party components that make up an application. It parses package manifests or compiled binaries to identify libraries and their versions, then checks vulnerability databases and license information-all without running the application. Static application security testing (SAST) analyzes proprietary source code for coding flaws but generally does not inventory external dependencies. Dynamic application security testing (DAST) and interactive application security testing (IAST) require a running build to probe the application at runtime, so they cannot be executed before compilation. Therefore, SCA is the appropriate choice for the described control.
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