Our take
What our shortlists say about each one.
- Black Duck Polaris Platform
Best for: Teams managing open-source and license risk
Black Duck Polaris belongs here for companies whose biggest risk sits in third-party and open-source code, where license rules matter as much as vulnerabilities. That suits firms that ship software to others or must answer for the licenses in their code. Plan setup time and skilled people for the first rollout, because event-based scans across many repositories need care to set up.
From Best Application Security Solutions for Business, Fall 2026
- Checkmarx One Application Security Platform
Best for: Teams scanning on every commit in CI pipelines
It is on the list because it runs seven kinds of testing in one place and links their findings, so you rank exploitable risk once instead of per scanner. It fits a mid-size or large engineering group with many pipelines to cover. Pilot it on your largest code base first, because scan time on that repository decides whether developers keep it in every build.
From Best Application Security Solutions for Business, Fall 2026
Reviewed by Nika (Nikoloz) Kokhreidze.
