Black Duck takes flight

Oct 01, 2024 / 2 min read

Today, Black Duck takes flight as an independent company. It’s not every day when a new organization starts on Day One as the established leader in its market, but Black Duck is no ordinary company.

Black Duck was conceived on a profound idea: If organizations run on software, then software risk is business risk. It was a prescient thought. Software has become the most targeted attack surface, and as organizations embrace software-as-a-service, open source software, DevOps, and now AI, the risk is greater than ever, and the stakes have never been higher.

To meet the challenge, Black Duck was formed as the Software Integrity Group within Synopsys. Over the past decade, we have developed the most comprehensive portfolio for application security testing (AST) in the market. Most importantly, organizations worldwide have embraced our offerings, powering us to over $500 million in revenue and double-digit profitability. From this solid foundation, we are poised to accelerate our innovation to help our customers overcome evolving threats.

Our track record to date has earned validation from industry analysts, including being named Leader in the Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for AST for seven consecutive reports. We have placed highest on the “ability to execute” axis and farthest right on the “vision” axis for the last five consecutive reports. We are also leaders in the Forrester Wave™ for software composition analysis (SCA) and static application security testing (SAST).

You can see why we do not consider this an ordinary company launch. This is the unveiling of a proven market leader with strong backing from two established investors, Clearlake Capital Group and Francisco Partners. Black Duck has the experience and expertise, the innovative technology, and the sound financials to be the next great software company.

Build trust in your software

Because software risk is business risk, organizations must transform the way they build and deliver software. They need to align their people, processes, and technology to intelligently address software risks across their portfolio and at all stages of the application life cycle. And the risks aren’t just about security—code quality and compliance must also be addressed. And all this must be done at faster speeds and with less complexity to effectively compete.

Sounds daunting, but this is where Black Duck enters the picture.

Our market-leading solutions help

Developers secure code as fast as they write it
Development and DevSecOps teams automate testing within development pipelines, without compromising velocity
Security teams proactively manage risk and focus remediation efforts on what matters most

With Black Duck, organizations can deploy market-leading solutions on premises, through software-as-a-service, or in a hybrid implementation. And our solutions are built to handle testing capacity demands that make other products collapse. We are also developing ways to harness the promise of AI to help our customers better detect and remediate vulnerabilities in their software. We have an aggressive roadmap to bring new levels of innovation to the market with the same world-class support our customers have come to expect.

Ready to soar

The Black Duck team is extremely excited about this new beginning in our story. But we’re not satisfied with simply taking flight. It is our collective goal to soar. And we realize the only way we can soar is if our customers soar. That’s why we are committed to delivering the best AST solutions in the world. For us, it’s not just a goal—it's a passion.

We welcome you to join us on this journey.