Black Duck® Software, Inc. ("Black Duck"), a leading global provider of application security solutions, today announced its continued commitment to the Saudi Arabian market with the introduction of the Black Duck Polaris® Platform. With this launch, Black Duck is establishing the first application security software as a service (SaaS) platform hosted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Polaris is designed to empower enterprises to manage their application security programs efficiently and effectively by integrating multiple powerful Black Duck analysis engines together in a single platform. Customer data will be entirely resident in Saudi Arabia in collaboration with Google Cloud. This offering will additionally become available to all Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations on July 15, 2025.
Key benefits Polaris provides to organizations:
- Enables secure development without friction. Personalized dashboards and AI-driven remediation assistance provide concise, developer-friendly descriptions with risk information alongside specific code fix recommendations, boosting secure development productivity.
- Provides ease of use and comprehensive testing through a single pane of glass. With concurrent scanning of static, dynamic, and software composition analysis engines, Polaris enables DevOps teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities in proprietary code, open-source dependencies, and application behavior through a single, fully integrated SaaS platform. Additionally, Polaris provides support for the most popular languages, frameworks, and package managers to integrate and aggregate your risk visibility.
- Automates any scan, anytime, anywhere, all at once. Polaris reduces the time and effort to scale software testing, with support for bulk onboarding from multiple SCM repositories and customizable security policies. This enables teams to automate AppSec workflows and perform testing across hundreds of projects in minutes.
Jason Schmitt, CEO of Black Duck
After opening our Riyadh office in 2022 to play an important role in securing Saudi Vision 2030, our introduction of Polaris in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia provides an integrated platform with rapid and scalable application security testing. Polaris offers a comprehensive view of the risk posture, enabling informed decision-making and real-time impact monitoring to embody True Scale Application Security for our customers.
Ritika Suri, Managing Director, AI & Data ISV Partnerships, Google Cloud
This collaboration helps pave the way for even more strategic application security adoption in the Saudi Arabian market. By introducing Polaris, which will be hosted on Google Cloud, organizations now have access to the SaaS application security platform with in-region hosted visibility.
