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Black Duck

Black Duck Polaris

Composite Score

7.7 /10

CX Score

8.1 /10

17 Reviews Write a Review

What is Black Duck Polaris?

Integrate AppSec to match the speed, scale, and ambition of AI-powered development with the Black Duck Polaris™ Platform. When innovation moves fast, your security must move faster. Accelerate modern software development with agentic AI AppSec that secures every line of code with no friction or delay.

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Awards & Recognition

Black Duck Polaris won the following awards in the Application Security Testing category

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Latest Award, 2026

5 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2026

Black Duck Polaris Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

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83 Plan to Renew

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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Black Duck Polaris?

9% Negative

0% Neutral

91% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Feature Ratings

Average 76

SDLC Integration

Policy Engine and Enforcements

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Mobile Application Security Testing

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in

False Positive Remediation

Risk Scoring

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Container Security Testing

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 78

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Black Duck Polaris Reviews

Ajit J.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2026

Great for Open-Source Risk Visibility

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Black Duck Polaris from other similar products?

Its deep dependency and snippet scanning with strong SDLC integrations helps uncover risks that many basic SCA tools miss

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

quickly highlights vulnerable components and makes prioritization easier for the team.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Initial setup can feel a bit complex, and large scans may take extra time in bigger environments.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

teams working heavily with open-source libraries and looking for strong governance, SBOM visibility, and CI/CD security checks.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Palak A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

Useful figuring out vulnerabilities in Open-Source

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Black Duck Polaris from other similar products?

its Advanced Vulnerability Management and Flexible Integration Options into DevOps pipelines, CI/CD tools and supports in cloud native environments

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

favorite aspect of this product is comprehensive license compliance management.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Complex setup in starting out

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You must try this implementing Black Duck SCA for managing open-source components, licensing, and vulnerabilities. It will help in tracking

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Darryl B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Excellent open source vulnerability detection.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Black Duck Polaris from other similar products?

After using this program for a while, I was able to significantly reduce the amount of rework by finding and analyzing vulnerabilities prior to utilizing any open source code. The support staff is always on hand to address any issues. Rest it enables us to quickly and accurately examine your code by letting us know what's in it.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I appreciate how simple it is to find out whether you have a security risk. The tool makes it incredibly easy to enforce security standards. This is a truly exceptional and incredible software that gives us a lot of information and is becoming better every day as time goes on. This wonderful program makes it simple and effective to find hidden flaws and security exposures. Thanks to the user-friendly style and layout they mandated, the open source detection on all cross-platform browsers, and most significantly, dependency information for multiple languages, we were able to grasp them very easily.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The reporting could be enhanced because it doesn't deliver the output in the way that one would anticipate it to, requiring extra effort to better show the data.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Fear not, Black Duck is here to the rescue; it handles the license and security requirements for your open source components. Ideally suited Managing open source components may be done without much difficulty. Comprehensive data warehouse knowledge store repository basis that is simple to use and comprehend... I recommend Black Duck.

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Black Duck Polaris Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

83 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Black Duck Polaris?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

SDLC Integration Integration with source code repository, pipeline, etc.

Policy Engine and Enforcements Includes standard and/or customizable security policies, and the ability to enforce policies.

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Analyzes applications while in runtime to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Analyzes libraries and other components of an application to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Mobile Application Security Testing Analyzes mobile apps and/or APIs to identify security vulnerabilities.

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) Analyzes applications while in runtime to identify potential security vulnerabilities, using automated or human interactions.

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in Provides plug-ins or other means to integrate directly into popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs).

False Positive Remediation Resolves false positives using either human curators and/or machine-enabled algorithms.

Risk Scoring Provides an overall risk score that consolidates and normalizes assessment results and allows for comparisons against other third parties.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Analyzes application source code to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Container Security Testing Analyzes application containers to identify security vulnerabilities.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

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Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Black Duck Polaris Reviews

Ajit J.

Great for Open-Source Risk Visibility

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Palak A.

Useful figuring out vulnerabilities in Open-Source

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Darryl B.

Excellent open source vulnerability detection.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

SDLC Integration

Policy Engine and Enforcements

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Mobile Application Security Testing

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in

False Positive Remediation

Risk Scoring

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Container Security Testing

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement