74% more files. 30% more dependencies. 107% more vulnerabilities. All from this year's AI adoption.
Your AI tools are shipping code faster than your governance can follow. Black Duck catches what code review misses.
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The governance gap between AI code velocity and compliance evidence is the defining risk of 2026.
Increase in mean vulnerabilities per codebase YoY — driven by AI-assisted development tools accelerating code and dependency creation at unprecedented scale. Source: 2026 OSSRA Report.
Growth in files per codebase in 2026 — driven by AI code generation. More files means more surface area for vulnerabilities, license conflicts, and SBOM gaps.
Known open source vulnerabilities in Black Duck's KnowledgeBase — with BDSA advisories up to 3 weeks ahead of NVD, covering AI model packages and traditional dependencies.
Time to first complete SBOM from Black Duck — covering source, binaries, containers, snippets, and AI-generated code fragments. No pipeline rebuild required.
Sources: 2026 OSSRA Report. Black Duck AI Code Governance research 2026. Black Duck product documentation.
Detection at AI speed. Governance at audit speed. Both, automatically.
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Scan what AI tools wrote — not just what developers declared
Black Duck's snippet analysis identifies AI-generated code fragments, their probable open-source source, license status, and vulnerability profile. This includes code from GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codeium, and other AI assistants — covering what package managers and SCA tools that rely on manifest files will never see.
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SBOM coverage across AI model dependencies
AI software products include model packages, fine-tuned weights, framework dependencies, and infrastructure libraries that traditional SBOM tools miss. Black Duck scans binary artifacts, containers, and AI model package registries — generating a CRA-compliant SBOM that covers the full product.
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Vulnerability response at EU CRA timing
When Black Duck identifies a vulnerability — including BDSA advisories 3 weeks ahead of NVD — X-DLM™ creates a governed Polarion work item with owner, timeline, severity, and approval chain. The 24h/72h/14-day CRA reporting windows are process steps, not fire drills.
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License conflict resolution before it reaches legal
Black Duck detects GPL/AGPL license conflicts introduced by AI-generated code — including 'license laundering' where AI assistants reproduce copyleft code without attribution. X-DLM™ routes conflicts into Polarion for engineering or legal decision and documents the resolution for CRA evidence.
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 engineering objections — answered
"We review all AI-generated code before it ships."
Code review catches logic errors, not license provenance. A GitHub Copilot suggestion derived from a GPL repository looks identical to original code in review. Black Duck's snippet analysis detects the source. Your reviewers can't. EU CRA holds you responsible regardless.
"We have an SBOM from our package manager."
Package manager SBOMs miss AI-generated code fragments, snippet-level dependencies, binary components, and model packages. Black Duck generates machine-readable SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs from source, binaries, containers, and AI code — the complete picture EU CRA requires.
Govern what your AI tools create.
Before EU CRA asks you to explain it.
See how X-DLM™ integrates Black Duck and Siemens Polarion to scan AI-generated code, automate SBOM generation, govern vulnerability response, and produce EU CRA evidence — in a technical walkthrough built for AI software engineering teams.