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.
Black Duck is a leader in the Gartner MQ for the eighth consecutive time
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.”

Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing" by Jason Gross, Mark Horvath, Giles Williams, Shailendra Upadhyay, Dionisio Zumerle, Aaron Lord, October 6, 2025

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