Black Duck is the legacy enterprise SCA + license platform. It excels at deep license discovery, snippet-level matching, and audit reports. dpndncY runs SCA + SAST + container + secrets + IaC + license — and adds pre-install enforcement, eBPF runtime, and DSSE-signed evidence on every decision, on infrastructure you control.
Modern platform with enforcement and signed evidence.
Self-hosted, multi-tenant. Multi-signal exploitability fusion. Pre-install firewall + eBPF runtime + signed evidence. Continuous SBOM with diff-from-last-known. Regulatory coverage maps signals to SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / PCI / EU CRA.
Enterprise SCA + license discovery suite.
Mature snippet-level code matching, deep license obligation engine, large advisory database. Heavy on-prem deployments with traditional enterprise procurement model. Strong at license audit, less focused on runtime enforcement or signed decision evidence.
Same set of capabilities. Different stack.
| Capability | dpndncY | Black Duck |
|---|---|---|
Self-hosted / air-gapped | ||
Pre-install enforcement (Dependency Firewall) | ||
eBPF Runtime Agent (4 kernel hooks) | ||
cgroup-BPF egress enforcement | ||
Signed evidence per decision (DSSE / in-toto) | ||
Offline-verifiable attestation binary | ||
Multi-signal exploit fusion (KEV+EPSS+ExploitDB+EWF) Some signals present; not the unified stack | ||
Trust-delta gating | ||
SCA breadth (17 ecosystems) | ||
License obligations engine | ||
Snippet-level code matching | ||
Native SAST (400+ rules / 13+ languages) SAST via separate Coverity | ||
Container image scanning (OCI) | ||
Modern API + auto-fix PRs | ||
Deployment model | container / Helm / Linux pkg / Windows installer | traditional enterprise installer |
Read every decision. Verify it offline.
dpndncY is self-hosted. No portal you have to log into to defend a decision three years from now.