Enterprise Application Security Testing Platform | Black Duck Polaris™ - SAST, DAST & SCA

Black Duck Polaris™ Platform

The no-compromise AppSec platform built for the speed, scale, and ambition of AI-powered development.

Keep security in sync with development

Polaris combines Black Duck’s market-leading SAST, SCA, and DAST engines with IaC analysis and secrets detection into a single, developer-first SaaS platform optimized for the speed of AI.

Built for the era of agentic AppSec

Enrich insights with AI

Black Duck Assist™ gives developers real-time issue summaries and code analysis directly in the IDE, so they have better context to act on.

Identify what matters with AI triage

AI-driven triage recommendations help you move from findings to fixes faster. Confidence ratings and clear rationale help you cut through false positives and prioritize what to focus on first—with required approvals keeping humans in control.

Fix SAST issues confidently

AI-generated SAST fix pull requests give developers the context to remediate with confidence, reducing mean time to remediate.

The AppSec platform teams trust

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of Polaris users report that AI-generated code fixes from Black Duck Assist significantly reduce fix times, sometimes cutting them in half.

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of Polaris users successfully onboard and scan their first app in under a week.

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of users who replace another AST tool with Polaris report that they now resolve security issues faster.

Build security into dev workflows from the start

Automatically discover new projects and repos. Run rapid scans on pull requests and full scans on merges. Post results as PR comments, surface findings in IDEs and SCMs, and automatically push issues to trackers.

Onboard automatically

Onboard thousands of apps effortlessly. Polaris can find changes in your SCMs (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps) and automatically registers new repos and branches while keeping all data current and synced.

Scan based on SCM events

Reduce downstream risk by running rapid scans on pull requests. Results post as PR comments for fast, in‑SCM feedback. Full scans can be triggered on merges, with results flowing right into JIRA, Azure Boards, GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues, and ServiceNow.

Apply policy-driven gates

Enforce security standards across the SDLC by breaking builds, blocking pull requests, sending notifications when a policy is in violation—and staying invisible when it’s not.

Apply automated fixes

Generate policy-driven or on-demand fix PRs that upgrade vulnerable open source dependencies to safe versions across your SCM, without manual effort, while ensuring developers review every fix before it merges.

Cut through the noise and fix what matters

Result: Teams spend time on real threats, not false positives or low-priority defects. This improves fix rates and reduces fatigue.

Unify risk into one score

Get a single prioritized view of issues across all scan types. Polaris delivers an integrated risk score that includes environmental, business, and application risk profiles.

Filter to find real threats

Polaris focuses teams on the 5% of issues that drive 95% of risk. Consolidated SAST, SCA, and DAST results with intelligent scoring and custom severities let developers fix what matters and move on.

Prioritize exploitable risk

Identify vulnerabilities and analyze them for severity, KEV listing, exploitability, and reachability.

Tailor policies to your risk profile

Define policies—like no OWASP Top 10 critical risks in production, or GPL code must be approved—and prove you adhered to them. Polaris ensures compliance through policy and reporting.

Control policy from one place

One policy engine for SAST, SCA, and DAST—set once, enforce everywhere.

Enforce policy automatically

Polaris turns policy into action. Block builds, create PRs, and push alerts to Jira.

Make policy adherence measurable

Track which teams meet security targets and prove adherence to policy through reporting.

Get trusted and accurate results with industry-leading engines

Get depth when you need it. Black Duck’s market-leading SAST, SCA, and DAST to give you unified, accurate results—whether issues are found in proprietary code, an open source component, or a cloud-based web app.

Secure your software no matter how it’s built

Polaris supports the most popular languages, frameworks, and package managers, plus IaC, API, and secrets scanning.

Know your risk, prove your impact

Polaris gives security leaders a real-time, unified view of application risk—and the tools to prove their program’s value.

A Magic Quadrant™ Leader for the Eighth Consecutive Time

2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing

Black Duck placed highest for Ability to Execute.

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FAQ

What is the Black Duck Polaris platform?

The Black Duck Polaris Platform is a comprehensive, cloud-native, SaaS application security testing solution designed to unify and automate application security throughout the software development life cycle. It integrates the industry’s most powerful security analysis engines—including SAST with Polaris fAST Static, SCA with Polaris fAST SCA, and DAST with Polaris fAST Dynamic—into a single, fully integrated platform.

How does Polaris integrate SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC scanning?

The Black Duck Polaris Platform seamlessly integrates SAST, SCA, DAST, and IaC scanning into a single, unified, and orchestrated cloud-native solution. This integration eliminates the fragmentation common with disparate point solutions.

Is Polaris a cloud-native application security testing platform?

Yes, the Black Duck Polaris Platform is a fully cloud-native application security testing platform, delivered as a SaaS solution. Polaris provides unparalleled on-demand scalability, automatically adjusting to any scanning workload without requiring upfront infrastructure investments or capacity planning.

How does Polaris improve collaboration between developers and security teams?

The Black Duck Polaris Platform fundamentally transforms the relationship between developers and security teams by providing a unified platform with shared visibility, common workflows, and integrated communication mechanisms.

Can Polaris be used for compliance reporting and governance?

The Black Duck Polaris Platform provides comprehensive compliance reporting and governance capabilities, transforming the often-burdensome task of meeting regulatory requirements into an automated, continuous process.