Black Duck

How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Black Duck's? The following comparison table enables you to discern the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company’s cybersecurity needs. To better understand each attribute, read their descriptions in the dedicated page.

Organization

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Black Duck
Focus	Native ASPM with built-in scanners	AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with built-in scanners	Native ASPM with built-in scanners
Extras	None	None	Fuzz testing, MAST, MPT and PTaaS
Employees	130	Same	1,234
Reputation	9.82 from 60 reviews over 6 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	8.66 from 151 reviews over 7 years on G2, Gartner, PeerSpot, Software Advice and TrustRadius
Followers	18K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	65K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube
Research firms	None	None	451 Research, Forrester and Gartner
Founded	2001	Same	2003
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	$82M USD in 12 rounds from 15 investors (4 acquisitions)
Revenue	5M to 10M	Same	25M to 1B
CVE	257 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked among the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	53 CVEs reported to MITRE
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	CSA STAR Level 1, ISO/IEC 26262, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 and TISAX
Documentation	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visits	26K per month. Top 3: 36% MY, 33% CO, 5% IN and others 26%	Same	220K per month. Top 3: 29% US, 12% IN, 6% KE and others 53%
Authority	31 out of 100	Same	55 out of 100
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS and GCP
Freemium	No	No	No
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	PoC
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pricing	Contact sales and marketplace	Contact sales	Contact sales, marketplaces and public web
Pricing drivers	Groups	Authors	Developers

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Black Duck
PTaaS	No	Yes	Yes
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	Yes
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	Yes
Exploitation	No	Yes	Yes
Zero-day vulnerabilities	None	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Response
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST	Same	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST
Hacker certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	Pending
Type of contract	Employee	Same	Employee
Standards	Some requirements from 65 standards, 14 in common and 51 additional	All requirements from the same standards	23 standards, 14 in common and 9 additional
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools
Remediation	5, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 1	3, all in common
Outputs	5, 4 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 2	7, 4 in common and 3 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Black Duck
ASPM	Yes	Yes	Yes
IDE	5 functionalities, 2 in common and 3 additional	Same, plus 1 functionality	2 functionalities in common and 1 additional
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Breaks the build
SCA	24 package managers, 14 in common and 9 additional	Same	27 package managers, 14 in common and 13 additional
Reachability	12 languages, 1 in common and 11 additional	Same	1 language in common
SBOM	22 package managers, 11 in common and 11 additional	Same	27 package managers, 11 in common and 16 additional
Containers	4 distributions	Same	Yes. No information available
Source SAST (languages)	18, 16 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 4. 3 in common and 1 additional	29 languages, 19 in common and 10 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22, 13 in common and 9 additional	Same	78 frameworks, 13 in common and 65 additional
Binary SAST	1 type of binary in common	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	28 types of binaries, 1 in common and 27 additional
DAST	10 attack surface types, 8 in common and 2 additional	Same	9 attack surface types, 8 in common and 1 additional
IAST	No	No	58 languages and frameworks
CSPM	Yes	Yes	Yes
Secrets	15 secrets types, 5 in common and 10 additional	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	9 secrets types, 5 in common and 4 additional
AI	3 functions, 1 in common and 2 additional	Same	1 function in common
Open-source	MPL-2.0 license, totally equivalent to the paid version	Not applicable	No
Deployment	SaaS	Same	SaaS and on-premises
Regions	US	Same	No information available
Status	Yes	Yes	No
Incidents	6 per year	Same	No information available

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Black Duck
SCM	4	Same	4, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	6
Ticketing	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	3, 2 in common and 1 additional
ChatOps	None	None	2
IDE	2, all in common	Same	11, 2 in common and 7 additional
CI/CD	20, 11 in common and 9 additional	Same	12, 11 in common and 1 additional
SCA	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner and 13 integrations
Container	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner and 4 integrations
SAST	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner and 27 integrations
DAST	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner and 13 integrations
IAST	None	None	Native scanner and 3 integrations
Cloud	3	Same	3, all in common
CSPM	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner and 2 integrations
Secrets	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner
Compliance	None	None	None

References were last checked on Apr 11, 2025.

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