You should choose an SCA tool that meets your needs whilst being as simple to use and unintrusive as possible. Ensure that your choice of tool is developer-friendly. It should ideally work within their existing workflows so they don’t have to exit their development environment to implement security functions, and it shouldn’t require them to learn a whole new software. To that end, it should seamlessly integrate into existing software and development environments.   Your SCA tool should do more than simply scan; it should provide a thorough analysis of software components and their dependencies. It should be able to prioritize the riskier vulnerabilities that need your attention within your particular projects and scope of work. It should serve up clear, comprehensive reporting that will form the bedrock of high-quality governance and control, and it should be able to remediate vulnerabilities quickly and easily. Ideally, this process will be automated and scalable so that your SCA capabilities will grow as your code base and your range of software and applications expands. And it should now be cloud native.