Your security product runs on open source. EU CRA requires SBOM evidence for every component of it.
Black Duck scans what's actually in your security product — including compiled binaries and AI model dependencies. Polarion governs the evidence. X-DLM™ makes it CRA-ready.
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Security products carry the same open-source risk as the products they protect — and now face the same regulatory obligation.
Of cybersecurity software codebases contain at least one high or critical open-source vulnerability. Security tools are not immune to the supply chain risk they help customers govern. Source: OSSRA 2026.
Known vulnerabilities in Black Duck's KnowledgeBase — with 63,000+ exclusive BDSA advisories not in NVD. For cybersecurity software with AI/ML and cloud-native dependencies, BDSA covers packages that general CVE databases miss.
Of codebases contain open-source license conflicts — the highest rate in OSSRA history. AI coding tools used by cybersecurity engineering teams introduce GPL/AGPL code without attribution. Source: OSSRA 2026.
EU CRA vulnerability reporting becomes operationally mandatory. To report, you need to know what components exist. To know that, you need SBOM and automated vulnerability tracking already running in your product pipeline.
Sources: OSSRA 2026. Mend.io EU CRA Guide 2026. FOSSID SBOM Implementation Guide 2026.
The SBOM you help customers generate — your own product needs one too.
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Scan every layer of your security product codebase
Black Duck scans cybersecurity software at the component and snippet level — covering detection engine dependencies, AI/ML inference libraries (PyTorch, ONNX, scikit-learn), threat intelligence processing frameworks, cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes operators, Prometheus exporters), cryptographic libraries, and protocol parsers. The SBOM covers what's actually in your product, not just what you declared.
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EU CRA SBOM — ready before September 2026
Black Duck generates machine-readable SBOMs in SPDX and CycloneDX aligned to EU CRA Annex I requirements. X-DLM™ version-controls each SBOM in Polarion, linked to vulnerability decisions and release records. Enterprise buyers can request it. Market surveillance authorities can inspect it. FedRAMP assessors can review it. All from the same system.
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NIST SSDF evidence — built into your development workflow
Polarion provides the workflow backbone for NIST SSDF practice families: Prepare the Organization (PO), Protect the Software (PS), Produce Well-Secured Software (PW), and Respond to Vulnerabilities (RV). Black Duck supplies the component intelligence. X-DLM™ maintains the evidence that federal procurement auditors and FedRAMP assessors review.
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License governance for AI-generated security code
Cybersecurity engineering teams use AI coding assistants for detection rule generation, ML model training scripts, and infrastructure automation. Black Duck detects GPL/AGPL license conflicts introduced by AI tools at the snippet level — protecting the IP of security products sold under commercial licenses and preventing open-source disclosure obligations from contaminating proprietary detection logic.
See how Siemens Polarion and Black Duck become one governed software risk workflow.
X-DLM™ turns Black Duck software supply chain intelligence into Siemens Polarion work items, requirements links, approvals, escalation paths, and continuously maintained evidence.
Brand authority buyers recognize
Backed by Siemens lifecycle governance and Black Duck AppSec intelligence.
Siemens Polarion ALM
Polarion provides the lifecycle system of record for requirements, tests, approvals, traceability, workflow automation, audit evidence, and regulated software delivery.
Black Duck Software Composition Analysis
Black Duck identifies open source and third-party components across source, binaries, containers, firmware, snippets, AI-generated code, and C/C++ environments without package managers.
The most common cybersecurity software engineering objections — answered
"We have internal security reviews — we know what's in our product."
Internal security reviews catch logical vulnerabilities. EU CRA requires a machine-readable SBOM covering every component — including open-source components in compiled detection engines, AI/ML inference libraries, and protocol parsers your team didn't explicitly choose. Black Duck finds what internal review misses. X-DLM™ produces the SBOM the CRA auditor requires.
"We're a security company — we already follow best practices."
Best practices are not evidence. EU CRA requires documented, traceable, auditor-reviewable proof that secure development practices operated across the product lifecycle. NIST SSDF requires the same for US federal procurement. X-DLM™ produces that evidence as a byproduct of how your engineering team already works in Polarion.
Produce the SBOM your own product requires.
EU CRA. NIST SSDF. Enterprise buyer trust. All from one system.
See how X-DLM™ integrates Black Duck and Siemens Polarion to scan cybersecurity product codebases, automate EU CRA SBOM generation, produce NIST SSDF evidence, and govern open-source license conflicts in security software engineering workflows.