2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing
Black Duck is a Leader for the Eighth Consecutive Time
We are a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant ™ for Application Security Testing (AST) for the eighth consecutive evaluation. Among the 16 vendors evaluated by Gartner, we placed highest in Ability to Execute for the sixth time in a row.
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- Generative AI is rapidly transforming software development.
- Capabilities for integrating and automating application security testing throughout the software development life cycle are now an expectation for AST products, not a differentiator.
- The AST market is projected to reach $5.1 billion in 2025, continuing a trend of rapid expansion.
- Gartner placed Black Duck in the Leaders Quadrant with the highest position on the Ability to Execute axis.
“Artificial intelligence, modern application designs and increased software supply chain risks are expanding the AST market scope. Cybersecurity leaders can identify and manage risk within applications by integrating and automating AST throughout software life cycles.”
Black Duck was recognized as Synopsys 2017-2024.
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