The rapid growth of AI and automation is changing how development teams work. Code is being written faster; teams are collaborating in new ways and vulnerabilities…well, they’re evolving just as quickly. This speed-up in development is exciting, but it also means that teams need to rethink how they safeguard applications in real time.
With 78% of enterprises expected to integrate AI into development by 2025 (up from 64% in 2023), the pressure to secure these accelerated workflows is higher than ever. The solution lies with DevSecOps tools. These tools don’t just identify vulnerabilities – they aim to prevent them from the outset, helping you integrate security into every line of code, commit, and deployment.
What Are DevSecOps Tools?
DevSecOps tools integrate security into the DevOps process. They work behind the scenes, from code creation through deployment, to prevent potential threats to code, dependencies, and infrastructure from becoming real problems.
They aim to catch vulnerabilities early by providing continuous scans, automated fixes, and detailed insights to reduce costly post-deployment surprises. By doing so, DevSecOps tools shift security left in the development cycle, making security an integrated and natural part of your workflow. For companies whose software directly drives revenue, these tools are a must.
Types of DevSecOps Tools
DevSecOps tools cover a lot of ground to keep up with today’s fast-paced development. Here’s a quick breakdown of the main categories:
- Supply Chain Security (SCS) tracks vulnerabilities in third-party dependencies, libraries, and any external code that enters the development pipeline.
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST) analyzes source code for security issues, scanning early in development to reduce vulnerabilities before they hit production.
- Dynamic & Interactive Application Security Testing (DAST/IAST) tests applications in runtime environments, while IAST integrates into applications to provide real-time insights.
- Container Security protects containerized applications, checking image integrity, compliance, and vulnerability management for Docker, Kubernetes, and other container ecosystems.
- Infrastructure as Code Security (IaC) secures cloud infrastructure setups by scanning configuration files for risky misconfigurations or policy violations.
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA): Monitors open-source and proprietary dependencies to spot security, legal, or operational risks.
5 Benefits of DevSecOps Tools
1. Built-in Security Throughout Development: Teams avoid late surprises and security gaps by catching and fixing vulnerabilities as code moves through CI/CD pipelines.
2. Instant Threat Detection and Response: Modern tools offer real-time visibility across all environments, promoting a secure software supply chain. Teams get instant and prioritized notifications, so you’re always ready to act on critical threats.
3. Smart Risk Prioritization: DevSecOps tools leverage AI to make risk assessment smarter, focusing on what’s critical. With insight into each vulnerability’s exploitability, security teams can prioritize high-impact issues and ignore low-level noise.
4. Faster Releases: With built-in security checks, vulnerability scans, and compliance tools, development teams can push secure code to production on schedule – meeting the fast pace of agile workflows without compromising safety.
5. Automated Fixes That Keep You Moving: These tools don’t just flag issues; they suggest context-specific, actionable fixes that teams can apply immediately. Automated guidance reduces back-and-forth.
Top 12 DevSecOps Tools for 2025
Supply Chain Security Tools
Supply chain security tools analyze dependencies and code integrity across third-party libraries. Key features include vulnerability detection across open-source and proprietary components, continuous monitoring with real-time alerts, and exploitability analysis that highlights threats that are reachable within your application. Advanced tools also offer automated remediation suggestions and SBOM creation.
1. Myrror
Myrror tackles the toughest supply chain security challenges with powerful, remediation-first features. It combines vulnerability detection with reachability analysis, prioritizing threats that can impact your application.
Myrror’s Binary-to-Source technology goes deep, exposing malicious code and trojans hidden in open-source and proprietary packages, even without a CVE. Plus, it offers clear, context-driven remediation plans so your team can act fast with fixes that matter. With SAST now included, Myrror covers both custom and third-party code.
Best for: Security-conscious teams with a high reliance on third-party code
Review: “Myrror helps us complete our shift-left picture, giving us visibility to our SDLC and helping us prioritize our most urgent vulnerabilities.”
2. Jit
With change-based scanning, Jit assesses each code commit for security risks and offers quick, actionable feedback, enabling developers to resolve issues before the code reaches production. Jit’s Context Engine prioritizes vulnerabilities based on their runtime relevance – meaning you can focus on exploitable, high-impact risks.
It also includes a suite of tools, like SAST, DAST, and SBOM, all in one platform. This streamlines supply chain security and simplifies compliance with one-click integrations for GitHub, GitLab, and more.
Best for: Startups and mid-sized companies looking to empower developers with seamless security tools without requiring deep security expertise
Review: “It feels like I have a small team of security engineers who are doing the work for me automatically––just by having this platform.”
SAST Tools
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools scan code for vulnerabilities pre-deployment. They are particularly effective at identifying common code-level issues, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), buffer overflows, and other OWASP vulnerabilities. Key features include real-time feedback within the developer’s IDE, extensive language support, and customizable rule sets that align with your specific security policies.
3. Semgrep
Semgrep focuses on what developers need to fix, not just what’s flagged. With high-confidence rules and cross-file analysis, it surfaces actionable findings in over 30 languages in the developer’s workflow—pull requests, Jira, Slack, and more. It keeps fix rates high with lightning-fast scans and context-aware recommendations from Semgrep Assistant.
Best for: Teams of all sizes looking to enforce secure coding standards.
Review: “It’s easy enough to write rules for Semgrep that security and other engineering teams use it to solve complex problems. This flexibility is a huge win, and the library of managed rules means we only have to write our own when we have custom problems.”
4. SonarQube Server
SonarQube gives developers immediate insights into security risks directly in their workflow. It detects critical issues like SQL injections, XSS, and data flow vulnerabilities, thanks to deep taint analysis that follows risky data paths in Java, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript. With secrets detection to flag any exposed credentials and seamless CI/CD integration, SonarQube keeps security checks streamlined.
Best for: Development teams that prioritize both security and code quality.
Review: “What I love about SonarQube is how it digs deep into my code and finds hidden issues that are not as obvious when writing the code, especially bugs and security problems, across different programming languages.”
DAST/IAST Tools
DAST and IAST tools find vulnerabilities in running applications, giving teams insight into how code behaves under real-world conditions. Key features include runtime data analysis, API and web application testing support, and the ability to detect complex vulnerabilities like authentication flaws and insecure session handling. Top-tier tools integrate with CI/CD systems for continuous testing, provide detailed attack simulation reports, and include exploitability scoring.
5. OWASP ZAP
ZAP’s Active Scan aggressively probes for vulnerabilities like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. At the same time, the Passive Scan monitors traffic without altering requests, identifying potential issues quietly in the background. Additionally, its man-in-the-middle proxy provides in-depth control over HTTP and HTTPS traffic, ensuring comprehensive application security by allowing detailed analysis and manipulation of requests and responses.
Best for: Small DevSecOps teams that need accessible open-source DAST capabilities.
Review: “The most appealing feature of OWASP ZAP is its ability to be used both as a stand-alone application and as a plugin for other systems. This makes it very versatile and easy to use in various situations.”
6. Veracode
Veracode’s platform makes runtime vulnerability detection seamless and scalable, with features that fit right into fast-paced development workflows. Teams can scan hundreds of web apps and APIs simultaneously, even in protected pre-production environments.
With a low false-positive rate of under 5%, Veracode helps teams focus on actual risks, not noise. And the platform’s flexible setup lets you schedule scans based on your release cycles.
Best for: Enterprises needing high-level runtime security insights.
Review: “Veracode combines human and automated scanning to offer a robust report. Reports are actionable, remediation is automated, and executive summaries are available on demand.”
Container Security
Container security tools secure container images and orchestrations, ensuring applications are protected across their entire lifecycle.
7. Trivy
Trivy is an open-source vulnerability scanner built for speed and precision in container environments. It quickly identifies vulnerabilities in container images by scanning packages and libraries against a comprehensive, regularly updated vulnerability database.
Trivy’s lightweight setup integrates smoothly into CI/CD pipelines, providing developers with instant, actionable scan results in multiple formats, including JSON and table outputs.
Best for: Smaller teams using Kubernetes and Docker.
8. Anchore
Anchore automates vulnerability scanning across CI/CD pipelines, container registries, and Kubernetes platforms, identifying risks such as malware and exposed secrets. The platform provides visibility into software dependencies by generating detailed Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) for each container image. Anchore’s advanced policy engine minimizes false positives by allowing flexible policy creation and using “hints” and “corrections” to refine vulnerability matching.
Best for: DevOps teams in highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and government.
Review: “The main advantage of Anchore is its easy use in our DevOps pipeline. We love the automated container security tool, which is scalable and thorough. Since we began looking for a cloud-native security solution, we have been delighted to have it.”
IaC Security
By securing IaC files like Terraform, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes configurations, IaC security tools protect against open storage buckets, overly permissive access controls, and unencrypted data flows. Essential features include broad misconfiguration detection across IaC files, real-time scanning within CI/CD pipelines, and customizable policies to enforce organizational standards. Top tools also offer automated remediation suggestions
9. Checkov
Main Features: Checkov scans all types of IaC files using over 750 predefined policies to catch common misconfigurations, providing robust, out-of-the-box security for your entire infrastructure. Checkov lets teams define custom policies using Python or YAML, tailoring security checks to fit specific needs. Through graph-based analysis, Checkov uncovers complex risks by mapping relationships between cloud resources, revealing issues typical checks might miss.
Best for: Teams heavily reliant on IaC for infrastructure management.
10. KICS (Keep Infrastructure as Code Secure)
Main Features: Developed by Checkmarx and the open-source community, KICS scans all major IaC formats – Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Kubernetes, and more –catching misconfigurations that could expose your app to security risks. With over 1,500 customizable queries, it’s highly extensible, allowing teams to create new checks and easily enforce security standards across their IaC.
Best for: Smaller companies or startups needing a simple, effective IaC tool.
SCA Security
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools secure applications by identifying vulnerabilities, licensing issues, and compliance risks in third-party components. The best SCA tools offer automated tracking of every dependency, CI/CD integration, a comprehensive vulnerability database, and licensing compliance checks.
11. Spectral
Spectral scans for threats like crypto miners, backdoors, and hijacked packages, using Check Point ThreatCloud intelligence to ensure no vulnerabilities slip through. Its automatic SBOM generation maps your entire codebase’s third-party dependencies, offering real-time visibility into software supply chain risks without disrupting your workflow.
Best for: High-velocity teams needing actionable insights to maintain compliant code.
Review: “One of the reasons we picked Spectral over the other products is Spectral has low-false-positive results, which give us a high confidence factor and save us precious development time.”
12. Synk
Main Features: Snyk Open Source delivers developer-friendly SCA by integrating directly into IDEs and CLIs, so vulnerabilities are flagged in real-time as you code. It scans pull requests and runs automated tests in CI/CD pipelines, preventing security issues from slipping through builds. With one-click remediation via pull requests, Snyk simplifies patching and upgrades. At the same time, its advanced prioritization ranks risks by reachability and exposure so teams can tackle the most critical issues first.
Best for: Fast-scaling teams and startups with heavy open-source use.
Review: “Centralised vulnerability visibility and reduction for the products that we develop. The UI also provides good reporting on KPI data to the relevant stakeholders for full risk reduction visibility. The integration is easy to set up with GitHub and out of the box.”
Security That Keeps Up with Your Code
Security can’t afford to lag behind in a world where development is faster than ever. DevSecOps tools are changing the game by making security a seamless part of the build process, tackling risks as code is written and integrated – before vulnerabilities can grow into critical issues. Each tool listed here brings a unique approach to weaving security into the workflow, allowing teams to catch problems early, focus on what matters, and confidently move forward.
Myrror goes beyond your typical supply gain tool, automating challenging security tasks and delivering insights that align with your business needs. It actively monitors open-source and proprietary code, using AI to prioritize vulnerabilities based on actual exploitability so teams can focus on the most pressing risks. By integrating Myrror, you’re equipping your team with a dynamic solution for security visibility and automation across the supply chain.
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