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Black Duck provides application security and software composition analysis (SCA) solutions, including Black Duck Audits used in M&A technical due diligence to analyze a target's codebase for open source components, license compliance issues and security vulnerabilities. Formerly the Synopsys Software Integrity Group, the business was acquired by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners in 2024 and relaunched as the independent company Black Duck Software, Inc. Its products serve development, security and M&A teams at over 4,000 organizations.
Offers AI-powered application security capabilities (e.g., Black Duck Signal) and addresses risks from AI-generated code via snippet matching and analysis.
CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), IDEs (Visual Studio, IntelliJ), issue trackers (Jira) and major source‑code repositories.
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