Synopsys Black Duck
vs Sonatype

Superior data.

Sonatype analyzes more than 4.7M components per day and has discovered 95x more malicious packages as compared to alternative solutions. In addition to using public and proprietary data sources, as well as industry-reading behavioral intelligence, Sonatype also has 65 full-time researchers on staff. More than 15M developers rely on Sonatype tools.

• Offers deeper insight into both source and binary artifacts, which ensures better risk identification.
• Associated open source security data generates more accurate results.
• Offers a more flexible solution that can be integrated into multiple DevOps tools versus being limited to a proprietary interface.
• Provides advanced risk detection through more expansive vulnerability databases.
• Scans both source code and binary components.
• Offers policy compliance rules, enabling users to compare a project’s bill of materials to custom-defined criteria.
• Helps enable faster development by quickly identifying mismatched versions.
• Provides automated alerts when security and licensing compliance issues arise.
• Comprehensive application dependency mapping helps users understand risk associated with entire development processes.

• Brings together automation, development, security, and release processes to reduce the risk of security vulnerabilities and time spent developing software.
• Sonatype’s AI-driven, continuous monitoring performs daily scans of deployed applications, ensuring that organizations always have up-to-date information about their dependencies.
• Sonatype’s proprietary data set, fuelled by our 65+ Research Team, offers accurate and timely info on security vulnerabilities, license risks, and architectural issues in open source components. This allows organizations to focus on prioritizing their most critical issues.
• Instead of simply providing alerts when a vulnerability is discovered, Sonatype focuses on prevention by enabling organizations to define and enforce custom policies for security, legal, and architectural compliance. This enables teams to make decisions that align with their specific requirements, rather than pushing them towards blindly upgrading components after a vulnerability is discovered.
• Sonatype provides actionable insights that help developers understand the root cause of vulnerabilities and associated risks, helping teams prioritize remediation efforts and make more strategic decisions.
• Sonatype Nexus Repository enables automated scanning of repository components and integrates with other tools, creating a continuous feedback loop between developers and security teams. This ensures that component scans are seamlessly integrated into development workflows, making it easier to maintain compliance and efficiently mitigate risks.

• 100,000+ malicious and suspicious packages have been discovered and blocked using next-generation, proprietary behavioral analysis, and automated policy enforcement.
• Sonatype Repository Firewall has helped remove over 22,000 malicious packages from open registries.
• Automatically blocks known vulnerabilities and OSS releases.
• Automatically releases cleared components, reducing the time spent reviewing them.
• Allows organizations to decide which components are allowed into the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Automatically returns secure versions of the component version range requested.

• Helps streamline the software development process.
• Provides a comprehensive solution for managing binary artifacts needed for the development, deployment, and provisioning of software across the entire SDLC.
• Allows developers and operations teams to access what they need from a single location.
• Makes collaboration with other teams easier.

• The Sonatype platform works with all major CI/CD, Dev, SCM, build and container tools, security tools, IDEs, and issue-tracking software.
• Supports 40+ languages and package types.

With the advent of DevSecOps, more organizations than ever before are looking to integrate Application Security Testing (e.g. SCA, SAST) into DevOps and associated DevOps tools. Because Sonatype has a footprint in software engineering, devops and security, we understand the importance of integration and provide capabiliites that make this seamless.

Sonatype helps organizations understand AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), embrace them, and use them safely. Sonatype offers tools to show where organizations are using AI technologies and models, identify what theose technologies and models are, and articulate model risk.