A Black Duck Maturity Action Plan (MAP) helps you address your specific application security challenges and objectives by providing an actionable roadmap for your security and development teams. Whether you want to move applications to the cloud, build security into your software development life cycle (SDLC) or DevOps initiatives, or manage open source risks, a MAP outlines the steps to get you there.

An intelligent roadmap based on multiple factors

A MAP (Maturity Action Plan) begins with a focused analysis of seven key factors across your security program’s people, processes, and technology. This structured approach helps uncover your current state, define your target outcomes, and build a clear, cost-estimated roadmap to reach your AppSec goals.

The Three-Phase Approach

  • Phase 1: Assess
    Gain a clear view of your current security posture through a deep assessment of people, processes, and technology.
  • Phase 2: Align
    Define your target state and pinpoint the gaps between where you are and where you need to be.
  • Phase 3: Act
    Build a tailored action plan based on your organization’s unique needs to achieve your desired security outcomes.

Seven key factors

Friction

Uncover the friction points between key stakeholders across diverse teams.

Automation

Prescribe automation processes to reduce the reliance on human intervention, enabling the elimination of bottlenecks.

Coverage

Measure your organization's capacity and ability to maximize capabilities relative to your unique risk profile.

Timing

Develop a plan to optimize the speed of activities in relation to ROI of associated capabilities.

Opportunity cost

Discover the cost associated with your decisions, such as balancing quick wins vs. scalable solutions.

Remediation

Determine the optimal testing process by looking at the mean time it takes to identify root cause across varying analysis and testing methods.

Security

Increase confidentiality, integrity, and availability by understanding the impact of each security capability and its associated risk to achieving program goals.

Select a MAP that aligns to your goals

<p>Understanding the health of your applications starts with an look at your security tools, projects, and people. By capturing a holistic view of your security posture, you can build a plan to thoughtfully address security gaps.</p><p>A <b>Software Security Program MAP</b> helps you:</p><ul><li>Determine the current state of security investments (people, tools, and projects)</li><li>Prioritize future funding, streamline resources, and reduce overall application risks</li><li>Uncover the best processes and tooling to increase automation and speed up remediation of vulnerabilities</li></ul>
Address key security gaps and automate security workflows

Understanding the health of your applications starts with an look at your security tools, projects, and people. By capturing a holistic view of your security posture, you can build a plan to thoughtfully address security gaps.

A Software Security Program MAP helps you:

  • Determine the current state of security investments (people, tools, and projects)
  • Prioritize future funding, streamline resources, and reduce overall application risks
  • Uncover the best processes and tooling to increase automation and speed up remediation of vulnerabilities
<p><b></b>Are you looking to move your applications to the cloud but aren’t sure how to maintain security as you do it?</p><p>A Cloud Security MAP provides you with a clear security strategy for managing your cloud-native applications. Each Cloud Security MAP is developed using proven Synopsys cloud security maturity models along with industry-recognized frameworks (CIS, NIST, etc.).</p><p>A <b>Cloud Security MAP</b> helps you:</p><ul><li>Create a sound cloud security reference architecture</li><li>Rationalize tools and governance</li><li>Provide secure development guidance</li></ul>
Protect your cloud applications

Are you looking to move your applications to the cloud but aren’t sure how to maintain security as you do it?

A Cloud Security MAP provides you with a clear security strategy for managing your cloud-native applications. Each Cloud Security MAP is developed using proven Black Duck cloud security maturity models along with industry-recognized frameworks (CIS, NIST, etc.).

A Cloud Security MAP helps you:

  • Create a sound cloud security reference architecture
  • Rationalize tools and governance
  • Provide secure development guidance
<p>Developer productivity and pipeline velocity doesn’t have to come at the cost of security. Implementing a Synopsys DevSecOps MAP can help you methodically integrate security into your pipelines without interfering with the speed of development.</p><p>A <b>DevSecOps MAP</b> uses a phased approach to help you:</p><ul><li>Automate tools into your CI/CD pipelines</li><li>Draw up a plan to transfer best coding practices over to your developers</li><li>Identify and remediate vulnerabilities faster while avoiding development friction</li></ul>
Build security into DevOps

Developer productivity and pipeline velocity doesn’t have to come at the cost of security. Implementing a Black Duck DevSecOps MAP can help you methodically integrate security into your pipelines without interfering with the speed of development.

A DevSecOps MAP uses a phased approach to help you:

  • Automate tools into your CI/CD pipelines
  • Draw up a plan to transfer best coding practices over to your developers
  • Identify and remediate vulnerabilities faster while avoiding development friction
<p>Can you trust the open source that your developers are using? The&nbsp;Open Source Software (OSS) MAP provides you with a tactical roadmap to securely consume and distribute open source software while maintaining license compliance and avoiding risk for your applications.</p><p>The OSS MAP framework aligns&nbsp;with OpenChain, the international standard for open source license compliance.</p><p>The <b>OSS MAP</b> helps you:</p><ul><li>Understand your license obligations</li><li>Utilize software composition analysis to find vulnerabilities and defects early in the SDLC and fix them</li><li>Put the proper governance and policies in place to manage the legal, security, and operational impact of OSS</li></ul>
Protect against open source vulnerabilities and license risk

Can you trust the open source that your developers are using? The Open Source Software (OSS) MAP provides you with a tactical roadmap to securely consume and distribute open source software while maintaining license compliance and avoiding risk for your applications.

The OSS MAP framework aligns with OpenChain, the international standard for open source license compliance.

The OSS MAP helps you:

  • Understand your license obligations
  • Utilize software composition analysis to find vulnerabilities and defects early in the SDLC and fix them
  • Put the proper governance and policies in place to manage the legal, security, and operational impact of OSS

Construct a plan for your unique security goals

If your organization has other software security needs, our customized MAPs can help you achieve them in the most cost-effective, efficient manner.

Security champions

Explore how to train and nurture security champions within the software development team, to introduce, mature, or improve a security program.  

AppSec metrics

Determine what’s working, what isn’t, and what you need to change, with a security metric–driven approach.  

CI/CD

Learn how to integrate security into all stages of your existing CI/CD pipeline.

Secure design

Early in the design phase—before code even gets written—discover how and where to implement secure design practices.

Application inventory

Manage security from a holistic point of view by understanding the depth and breadth of your full application portfolio.

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