Richer vulnerability intelligence

Black Duck® Security Advisories help you stay ahead of open source vulnerabilities with real-time alerts and actionable insights, so you can prioritize and fix issues before a breach occurs.

Black Duck Security Advisories: Above and beyond the NVD

Black Duck Security Advisories use enhanced data that is researched and analyzed by the Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) to provide complete and comprehensive insights that help you act fast.

What Black Duck Security Advisories offer

  • Same-day notification of newly reported vulnerabilities, up to three weeks earlier than the NVD
  • Thousands of Black Duck–exclusive vulnerabilities not available in the NVD
  • Actionable mitigation, workaround, and remediation guidance
  • Direct mapping to affected applications for rapid evaluation of risk exposure
  • CWE and CVSS 2.0/3.0 severity data
  • Evidence of attack and compromise information
  • Policy features that enable automatic vulnerability remediation guidance based on BDSA data
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The value of Black Duck Security Advisories

Increase the depth, speed, and accuracy of your remediation efforts with BDSAs

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Expert vulnerability intelligence that powers smarter security

Context AI™, informed by Black Duck Security Advisories’ vulnerability intelligence, enriches our portfolio of AppSec solutions to enable security and development teams and AI agents to build secure, high-quality software faster.

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