Ortelius vs TRUSCA

Ortelius connects software inventory to deployment information so teams can trace packages and versions to the endpoints where they run. It accepts SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs and can create an SBOM with Syft when one is missing. It checks inventory against OSV.dev for newly disclosed vulnerabilities every ten minutes, tracing affected packages through artifacts and deployments to endpoints. Its post-deployment security dashboard brings together project security signals, versioned SBOMs, live deployments and vulnerability detection, and correlates OpenSSF Scorecard results with deployed packages and versions. Ortelius describes the dashboard as continuously aligned with NIST 800-218 SSDF. The product is available as SaaS or on-premise/self-hosted software, with REST and GraphQL APIs protected by JWT middleware. A GitHub App supports installation connections and repository onboarding, but onboarding does not attach an SBOM. Ortelius OS Free costs nothing, with up to 5 components; DeployHub Enterprise costs $40 a month, billed $40 / component / month.

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.