Black Duck Insights

What is Black Duck?

Black Duck, now part of Synopsys, is a software composition analysis (SCA) tool used to manage open source software (OSS) risks. It helps organizations identify and manage open source components in their software, including associated vulnerabilities, license compliance issues, and operational risks. It's commonly used by development, security, and legal teams to ensure secure and compliant use of open source software throughout the software development lifecycle.

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What other technologies are related to Black Duck?

Black Duck Competitor Technologies

Fortify

Fortify is a static application security testing (SAST) tool, overlapping with Black Duck's software composition analysis (SCA) capabilities in identifying vulnerabilities in code.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 11% (1.5k) of relevant job posts

Coverity

Coverity is a SAST tool that, like Fortify, competes with Black Duck in finding vulnerabilities, although with a different approach (static analysis vs. SCA).

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 15% (839) of relevant job posts

Checkmarx

Checkmarx is another SAST tool that competes with Black Duck, specifically in the application security testing space. Their focus is on source code analysis and vulnerability detection, some of which overlaps with Black Duck's capabilities related to open source components.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 10% (1.1k) of relevant job posts

SonarQube

SonarQube provides static code analysis, and although its primary focus isn't SCA, it has some overlap with Black Duck in identifying code quality and security issues, including some open source related vulnerabilities.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 3% (2.3k) of relevant job posts

Palamida

Palamida was a software composition analysis tool that directly competed with Black Duck in identifying and managing open source components and their associated risks. Palamida was acquired by Flexera.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 97% (66) of relevant job posts

Veracode

Veracode offers a suite of application security testing tools, including SAST, DAST, and SCA, making it a direct competitor to Black Duck, especially in SCA.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 8% (626) of relevant job posts

Fossology

Fossology is an open source license compliance tool that competes with Black Duck in identifying license information and managing open source compliance.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 76% (54) of relevant job posts

Snyk

Snyk is a direct competitor, providing SCA and security vulnerability management for open source dependencies, similar to Black Duck.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 6% (322) of relevant job posts

Black Duck Complementary Technologies

JIRA/Bitbucket/Confluence

Atlassian tools like JIRA, Bitbucket, and Confluence can be integrated with Black Duck to manage vulnerability remediation workflows, track code changes, and provide collaboration around security issues.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 96% (66) of relevant job posts

Gradle/Maven

Gradle and Maven are build automation tools. They are complementary because Black Duck can integrate with these tools to analyze dependencies during the build process.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 26% (64) of relevant job posts

Artifactory

Artifactory is a repository manager. Black Duck can integrate with Artifactory to scan components stored in the repository for vulnerabilities and license compliance issues.

mentioned alongside Black Duck in 2% (837) of relevant job posts