
Polaris
Black Duck Polaris is a unified, cloud-based AppSec solution that integrates multiple industry-leading testing engines—SAST, SCA, and DAST—into a seamless experience. It enables organizations to automate and prioritize risk management across their entire software portfolio
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
Detect open source components (declared, transitive, binary, snippet) across codebases, containers, firmware, and artifacts
Leverage the Black Duck KnowledgeBase—an extensive repository curated by an expert research team—for vulnerability and license insights beyond standard sources like NVD
Generate SBOMs in both SPDX and CycloneDX formats; import external SBOMs for centralized visibility and policy enforcement
Static Code Analysis (fAST Static / Coverity)
Perform fast, incremental scans triggered in IDE, pull requests, or CI pipelines. Detect code quality issues, hard-coded secrets, and security defects early in development
Drive remediation with automated policy enforcement and build-break capabilities
Dynamic Testing (fAST Dynamic)
Conduct quick, self-serve web and API scans with minimal setup. Ideal for modern applications including SPAs, internal tools, and production workloads
AI-Driven Remediation (Polaris Assist)
Use generative AI to generate actionable vulnerability summaries and code fix suggestions
Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)
Consolidate results from over 135 testing tools into Software Risk Manager™, a centralized repository for security posture reporting
Guide developers on what to fix first with prioritized insights and compliance tracking
Seamless Integration and Scalability
Onboard hundreds of projects quickly from SCM platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure. Integrates with IDEs, build tools, CI/CD pipelines, and issue trackers to embed security where teams already work
Automatically enforce organizational policies by blocking merges or builds when violations occur
Benefits to Organizations
Accelerate secure development: Shift security left, reduce mean time to remediation, and streamline release cycles
Increase visibility & control: Monitor risk across proprietary and open source code from dev to production
Maintain compliance: Support legal and regulatory mandates with license tracking, SBOM exports, and audit trails

