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Black Duck Recognized as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 for Application Security Testing

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In the report Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing 2025, Black Duck has been recognized for the sixth consecutive time at the highest rank in the Ability to Execute category.

Almost exactly a year after the company became independent and rebranded under the name Black Duck, Gartner recognized the company again as a “Leader in the Magic Quadrant 2025 for Application Security Testing.” This is the eighth consecutive year that Black Duck has received leader status, and the sixth in a row for topping the Ability to Execute assessment.

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RECOGNITION

Highlights of a Breakthrough Year

This recognition underscores Black Duck’s unwavering commitment to innovation and the protection of mission-critical software for its customers. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the ways software is created, tested, and deployed, while also complicating the risk landscape. Black Duck stands at the forefront of this new, dynamic era, helping developers and security professionals navigate the fast-moving and unpredictable world of AI with confidence. Black Duck’s intelligent and scalable cybersecurity solutions evolve at the same pace as the code they are designed to protect.

In its first year as an independent company, Black Duck introduced a number of new solutions and enhancements that demonstrate its dedication to innovation.

Black Duck Assist

The company significantly improved its AI-powered application security assistant by adding automated security scanning and AI-driven code fixes directly within the IDE, ensuring seamless protection of application code.

Black Duck Security GitHub App

Black Duck launched a new integration that enables easy connection and continuous synchronization of GitHub repositories with the Polaris Platform, Black Duck SCA, and Coverity SAST. This allows development and security teams to easily configure and automate large-scale source code scanning across both SaaS and on-premise environments.

Polaris Platform Enhancements

  • Rapid Static Scan with analysis in under two minutes
  • AI-powered chatbot with support for natural language queries (NLQ)
  • AI-based authentication support in fAST Dynamic
  • Customizable application risk-scoring system
  • Expanded policy management capabilities

Aggregation and normalization of security testing results from more than 50 third-party tools.

INDUSTRY LEADER

The Future Lies in Innovation

However, leadership cannot be retained by relying only on past achievements. Black Duck’s position as a “Leader in the Magic Quadrants” for the eighth consecutive year is the result of continuous evolution, not inertia. Today, the company is working on a range of groundbreaking innovations to ensure uncompromising trust in its software in a rapidly AI-adopting, regulated world.

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