Black Duck Polaris vs Black Duck Seeker

Black Duck Polaris is a cloud application-security platform that brings several types of testing into software development workflows. Its engines cover static analysis through Polaris fAST Static, software composition analysis through Polaris fAST SCA, and dynamic analysis through Polaris fAST Dynamic. It also scans infrastructure as code and detects secrets. Dashboards, correlated and enriched findings, portfolio analytics, and role-based views help teams organize risk. Polaris can produce software bills of materials using package-manager, signature, binary, and container analysis. It generates compliance reports for PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, and maps findings to OWASP Top 10 and CWE. Repository integrations include Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab. Issue tracking connects with Azure DevOps, Jira Cloud and Data Center, and ServiceNow; Jira and ServiceNow support two-way synchronization. Pricing is on request, and a free trial is available. The service description limits an application to 1 million lines of code and five supporting projects.

Black Duck Seeker is paid, self-hosted interactive application security testing software for web runtime targets. It tests APIs and can connect security checks to CI/CD pipelines. Instrumentation uses an agent, and listed language coverage includes Java, .NET, Node.js, Go, Python, and PHP. The software is listed for Linux, macOS, web, and Windows environments, while deployment remains self-hosted. This combination supports teams assessing web applications and APIs built with the covered languages as part of automated delivery workflows. Pricing is available on request rather than published as an amount. Black Duck lists its headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States. Organizations choosing Seeker need to account for its self-hosted model, agent instrumentation, supported runtime, and language list when matching it to their applications and infrastructure.