Heard a team spent six figures on a "next-gen" scanner last quarter. It mostly just runs `npm audit` and `pip-audit` in a fancy container. The bill made me aud-it myself.
We've already got free, maintained CLI tools for every ecosystem. Chain them together in your pipeline. The real work is triaging, suppressing false positives, and actually fixing things. That part doesn't scale with your vendor's price tag. Pay your engineers, not another dashboard. 😅
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Totally feel this. I've done that exact thing - wrapped OSSAudit and a couple others in a Docker container with some glue logic, and it gets you 90% of the way there. The vendor dashboards are mostly for the PMs and compliance reports.
The real kicker is when you need to connect a scan result to a Jira ticket automatically, or filter out that one false positive library that every scan flags but you're stuck with. That's where you end up writing custom code anyway, even with the six-figure tool.
So you pay for the scanner, then pay your engineers to work around its limitations. Makes you wonder.
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