Astra Security vs Black Duck

About Black Duck

Black Duck sells application security testing products and services, including agentic AI AppSec, SAST, DAST, IAST and SCA. Black Duck offers True Scale Application Security, which it says empowers organizations to build trust in their software. Black Duck's solutions identify, manage and remediate security vulnerabilities, license compliance risks and code quality issues across the entire software development life cycle. Black Duck says its solutions enable teams to secure proprietary and open source components and AI-generated code. Greg Hughes is CEO of Black Duck. Black Duck says 4,000+ organizations choose its products.^{[1][4][5][10][12]}

Black Duck Polaris Platform unifies scanning, automation and policy controls in one platform. Black Duck says teams can unify SAST, SCA, DAST, DevOps automation, policy controls and AppSec analytics in one SaaS platform. Black Duck says its application security platform has flexible pricing and plans that scale with the business. Black Duck Signal AI agents work as an extension of the customer's team, finding and fixing vulnerabilities. Coverity Static Analysis provides code scans with actionable suggestions so developers and security teams can resolve issues. Defensics Fuzzing uses black box fuzzing techniques on services and protocols to find obscure vulnerabilities before they are exploited.^{[1][4][5][6][7][8][11]}

Black Duck SCA identifies all open source dependencies in a customer's software and generates a Software Bill of Materials. Black Duck says it monitors components against vulnerability databases, including its proprietary KnowledgeBase, and alerts teams to new threats without requiring new scans. For licensing, Black Duck SCA surfaces the exact licenses used for every open source dependency it identifies. Black Duck says the EU CRA requires comprehensive SBOMs and timely vulnerability management. Black Duck uses LLMs and curated security intelligence to generate minimal patches for vulnerable dependencies, including cases with no upstream fix. Black Duck expands exploitability and reachability analysis across source code, binaries and containers. Black Duck detects embedded open source and hybrid AI models using signature-based analysis.^{[1][4][5][8][9]}

The Code Sight IDE plug-in integrates SAST and SCA scans into the developer IDE. Black Duck gives developers real-time analysis of security defects in their code and open source components directly within the IDE. Black Duck sources remediation guidance from the Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC). Black Duck offers interactive application security testing that monitors application behavior in the background of preproduction runtime testing. Black Duck's security tools integrate with source code management solutions to enable scans on every pull or merge request. Black Duck's security tools integrate with build and CI tools to add security into CI/CD pipelines. Black Duck Jenkins Plugin automates building, uploading, and scanning of application code in Jenkins pipelines. Black Duck integrates with binary repositories to host approved open source packages and store build artifacts. The Black Duck plugin for JIRA creates issues based on vulnerabilities and issue policy violations detected by Black Duck. The Black Duck plugin for Slack lets teams create Slack notifications based on vulnerabilities and policy violations detected by Black Duck.^[9][10][11]

Black Duck offers an open platform that can integrate with several third-party security testing tools to consolidate SAST, SCA, DAST, Infrasec, CNAPP, IaC and pen testing in one place. Black Duck says its ASPM solution can ingest vulnerability findings from Checkmarx, Snyk and Veracode into Polaris. Black Duck helps track and prioritize issues against functional safety, security and industry standards, with native reports to prove compliance.^[8][10]

Open Source and Third-Party Software audits use software composition techniques, the Black Duck KnowledgeBase and open source-expert auditors. Static Application Security Testing audits combine automated scanning with expert source code review. Penetration Test audits simulate real-world attacks to evaluate security from the outside-in. Secure Design Review audits involve interviews with application engineers to assess the design of core security controls. Design Quality audits use insights from expert software architects and advanced analysis to assess modularity and hierarchy. Code Quality audits combine static analysis with manual code review. Black Duck acts as a technical advisor to private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Black Duck has advised acquirers on software due diligence in thousands of transactions.^[12]

Black Duck offers penetration testing that examines an attack surface including web apps, APIs, VPNs, storage and databases, VMs, and authentication and authorization practices. Black Duck offers CNAPP and cloud workload protection program (CWPP) accelerators and cloud security experts for solution design, implementation and SecOps training. Black Duck offers technical integration and configuration support, product education tutorials and security training to fast-track AppSec projects. Black Duck offers technical help through global support, account teams and experts in its community network.^[12][14][15]