What SonarCloud is
SonarCloud has the benefit of winning your developer's hearts due to its initial product focus on bug squashing and the ability to ingest a wide variety of reports. While the SAST functionalities are newer, they robust enough to warrant the add-on to their code health scanning. Great choice for developer only teams with low risk products. The vendor site is sonarcloud.io. This profile is an entry in the oneNorma directory, not a vendor landing page.
What SonarCloud covers
SonarCloud is in the catalog for these capabilities. Categories: SAST. Catalog tags: Hands-on, Open Source, and Best for Startups.
How to evaluate SonarCloud in a security program
Use SonarCloud as a stack candidate, not as diligence evidence. The oneNorma score for SonarCloud is 4.5/10 (percentile 27). If the real gap is in SAST, a dashboard does not replace a pentest or a control mapped to Law 21.663 or ISO 27001. Compare this profile with what sonarcloud.io publishes. Contrast it with pentesting and Security Cloud & Compliance.
