Traditional Application Security Testing (AST) tools like SAST, DAST, and SCA fail to adequately protect against software supply chain attacks due to increasing complexity in DevOps, extensive use of third-party code, and focus on source code vulnerabilities over behavior analysis. These tools miss threats in third-party components, exposing organizations to malware, unanticipated behaviors, and secrets compromises. Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) tools evolve AST by providing comprehensive risk analysis, including threat visibility into third-party software, making them crucial for end-to-end software security in the face of rising supply chain attacks.

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