2026 SC Award winner Black Duck — Best Supply Chain Security Solution

As supply chain attacks become more sophisticated and regulation intensifies, having complete, trustworthy insight into what’s inside enterprise software has become critical for preventing the next SolarWinds or MOVEit-scale event.

Modern applications rely on massive volumes of open source and third-party components. By helping teams manage this scale with deep, automated visibility into every dependency, including binaries and containers, Black Duck SCA was named the Best Supply Chain Security Solution in the 2026 SC Awards.

Black Duck’s advanced analysis quickly identifies vulnerabilities, transitive risks, and malicious packages, which have become a major attack vector. As organizations adopt AI-generated code, Black Duck SCA’s snippet analysis helps teams avoid hidden license conflicts by detecting copied or AI-generated code that resembles copyrighted or restricted open source.

SC Awards Judge Saurabh Srivastava, director of hybrid cloud security at Hilton, added that Black Duck offers a mature and reliable enterprise SCA platform with broad adoption, strong compliance alignment, and frequent releases.

“The practical value is clear for teams that need consistent vulnerability and license governance in CI/CD pipelines,” said Srivastava. “Compared with newer entrants, this feels more execution driven than category redefining, but it remains a very credible top tier submission.”

As AI models enter the software supply chain, Black Duck SCA offers full transparency into model provenance, usage rights, and emerging AI-specific risks. Regulations worldwide are increasingly requiring a Software Bills of Materials (SBOM), continuous vulnerability monitoring, provenance validation, and other supply chain assurance requirements, and Black Duck SCA offers all these capabilities.

Black Duck boasts thousands of SCA users worldwide, including several large companies, as well as various startups. The customer base spans a wide range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and software/IT services.