Black Duck Announces Enhancements to AI Powered Application Security Assistant

Black Duck has unveiled Black Duck Assist, which enables developers to find and fix security and compliance issues in human and AI-generated code in real time. Black Duck Assist is now woven into the company’s Code Sight IDE plugin. These updates introduce automated scanning of AI-generated code and AI-powered remediation guidance, bringing continuous code protection seamlessly into developer workflows. 

According to Gartner, “Generative AI will deliver the greatest impact when adjacent activities complement the gains in coding efficiency. For example, AI code security assistants and AI-augmented software-testing tools can help reduce the mismatch in cadence between coding, scanning and testing activities.” 

With the Code Sight IDE plugin, Black Duck Assist now monitors code in real time, whether authored manually or produced by AI coding assistants. It flags security flaws and potential IP infringements early, enabling developers to remediate issues immediately before moving on. 

Black Duck Assist also delivers AI-generated summaries of vulnerabilities, code analysis, and suggested fixes directly within the development environment, helping teams ship secure, compliant code faster without leaving their IDE or escalating to security specialists. 

In addition to support for traditional IDEs like Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Visual Studio, Code Sight now extends to AIfirst editors such as Cursor and Windsurf, enabling safe and secure integration of code generated by AI tools, including GitHub CoPilot and Claude Code. 

Black Duck Assist now offers natural language query support in both the IDE and the Polaris platform, enabling users to ask simple questions and retrieve project metrics, trends, test outcomes, or product configuration guidance without menu clicks. 

“These advancements underscore Black Duck’s commitment to harnessing the power of AI to enhance our products and help our customers securely and confidently embrace the benefits of AI-augmented development,” said Dipto Chakravarty, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Black Duck. “By extending Black Duck Assist directly into the developer’s workflow, we empower them to build secure software faster and more efficiently than ever before.” 

To learn more, read Black Duck’s blog post or watch the Black Duck Assist video. 

This announcement follows news that Black Duck has reinforced its commitment to the Saudi Arabian market with the introduction of the Black Duck Polaris® Platform as the first application security software as a service (SaaS) platform hosted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 

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