FOSSA

FOSSA is a software supply-chain security company whose flagship product, fossa-cli, turns the often-overlooked task of dependency auditing into a one-command operation. Built for developers, DevOps teams, and compliance officers, the CLI ingests source trees in seconds, maps every transitive library, framework, and binary module, and returns a concise bill-of-materials together with license obligations, vulnerability counts, and policy violations. The tool plugs natively into CI pipelines, container builds, and artifact repositories, so security checks run automatically whenever code is pushed or containers are rebuilt. Output formats range from SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs to human-readable HTML reports, making it equally useful for legal sign-off, vendor questionnaires, and regulatory submissions. Because the binary is statically compiled and requires no local daemon, engineers can run identical scans on laptops, cloud instances, or air-gapped build farms without configuration drift. FOSSA thus covers the full modern stack—JavaScript npm, Python pip, Go modules, Rust crates, Java Maven, .NET NuGet, C/C++ conan, Docker layers, and even Helm charts—giving organizations a single source of truth for open-source risk across monorepos, micro-services, and legacy systems. fossa-cli is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always pulling the latest release and supporting batch installation alongside other utilities.