Black Duck has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST) for eight consecutive years.

Black Duck, represented by Docutek, has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing for the eighth consecutive year, and ranked highest for execution for the sixth year in a row.

The report notes:

“AI, modern application design, and the growing risks in the software supply chain are expanding the scope of the AST market. Security leaders can identify and manage application risks by integrating and automating AST throughout the software development life cycle.”¹

Black Duck has introduced several new AI-powered capabilities designed to automate and streamline vulnerability detection, risk triage, and remediation for developers, while enabling security teams to more effectively assess and manage their organization’s risk posture:

Black Duck Assist: Significant enhancements have been made to its AI-powered application security assistant, adding automated security scanning for both AI-generated code and AI-driven code fixes directly within the IDE to ensure seamless protection of application code.
Black Duck Security GitHub App: A new integration method that connects and continuously synchronizes GitHub repositories with Polaris, Black Duck SCA, and Coverity, enabling development and security teams to easily configure and automate large-scale source code scanning across both SaaS and on-premises environments.
Polaris platform enhancements: New capabilities include customizable application risk scoring, advanced policy management features, and the ability to aggregate and normalize security testing results from more than 50 third-party tools.