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Black Duck

Application security testing software for finding code vulnerabilities and open source licence risk

  • Founded 2002

About Black Duck

Black Duck makes application security software that helps development and security teams find flaws in code and manage risk in the open source components they use. Its Polaris platform brings several kinds of testing together.

What Black Duck offers

  • Static application security testing (SAST) — scans source code for security weaknesses.
  • Dynamic application security testing (DAST) — tests running applications for vulnerabilities.
  • Software composition analysis (SCA) — tracks open source components, their licences and known vulnerabilities.
  • SBOM and supply chain monitoring — software bills of materials and ongoing vulnerability tracking to support rules such as the EU CRA.
  • AI-assisted AppSec — agentic AI features aimed at speeding up the step from discovery to fix.

Who it works with

Its customers are security and development teams, including those building safety-critical systems where code quality and compliance matter.

Key facts

  • Based in: United States
  • Customers: more than 4,000 organisations
  • Vulnerability data: over 20 years of human-verified intelligence

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Sep 2026.

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