Anchore Enterprise vs TRUSCA

Anchore Enterprise is an SBOM-powered platform for continuous software supply-chain security and compliance. It generates software bills of materials for containers, source code, and filesystems in Syft, CycloneDX, and SPDX formats, then continuously scans those SBOMs for vulnerabilities, secrets, and malware. Policy packs cover NIST, FedRAMP, and DISA, while policy-as-code rules use JSON instructions that can be version controlled in Git. Runtime inventory can cover images running across EKS, ECS, AKE, GKE, and OpenShift clusters. Deployment options include an AWS machine image or container images installed with Helm on Kubernetes-compatible platforms, including air-gapped environments. Every feature and operation can be instrumented through an API. Integrations include major CI, registry, and cloud services such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Amazon ECR, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Harbor. It supports API, Linux, self-hosted, and web environments. Pricing is on request; there is no free plan, but a free trial is available.

TRUSCA is a free, open-source, self-hosted software composition analysis platform for CVE tracking, license compliance, and SBOM management. It uses cdxgen to detect packages across more than 30 language ecosystems, while Trivy matches components with NVD, OSV, GitHub Advisory, EPSS, and KEV data. Weekly database refreshes add new CVEs. TRUSCA imports CycloneDX or SPDX SBOMs and exports CycloneDX in JSON or XML and SPDX in JSON or Tag-Value. CI integrations include GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins examples, a REST API, and API keys; build gates can fail on Critical CVEs or forbidden licenses. License workflows classify licenses as allowed, conditional, or forbidden, generate NOTICE files, and block forbidden licenses. The platform also offers approvals, an append-only audit log, email, Slack, Teams notifications, VEX triage, and EPSS prioritization. It runs through Docker Compose or Helm. It does not analyze users’ own source code.