What Phylum is
Acquired by Checkmarx. Phylum meets standard SCA scanning requirements, but differentiates with upstream malware detection. They have some smart features such as providing a CLI wrapper for NPM stalls to block attempted malware instalonenorman during development. The vendor site is www.phylum.io. This profile is an entry in the oneNorma directory, not a vendor landing page.
What Phylum covers
Phylum is in the catalog for these capabilities. Categories: SCA. Catalog tags: Hands-on, Acquired, and Best for Enterprise.
How to evaluate Phylum in a security program
Use Phylum as a stack candidate, not as diligence evidence. The oneNorma score for Phylum is 3/10 (percentile 2). If the real gap is in SCA, a dashboard does not replace a pentest or a control mapped to Law 21.663 or ISO 27001. Compare this profile with what www.phylum.io publishes. Contrast it with pentesting and Security Cloud & Compliance.
