Trace-AI

Catching a poisoned dependency before it ships is the job Trace-AI takes on. Trace-AI is a software supply-chain security tool that predicts and prevents attacks using metadata-driven analysis, so it does not need your source code.

It reads dependency manifests and lock files only, and the data is encrypted, with a local ZSBOM option if you want analysis to stay on your own machines.

The tool produces real-time SBOMs, scores risk with exploit awareness, and checks license compliance.

Because Trace-AI ranks vulnerabilities by whether they can actually be exploited, you should see fewer alerts to wade through.

It supports all major programming languages and package managers, and it generates audit-ready reports for several compliance frameworks.

One point stands out for a security product: the ZSBOM model, the classification logic and the policy as code are open source, so you can inspect how a verdict is reached instead of trusting a black box.

That transparency is the main reason to consider it over closed scanners.