License Compliance and Software Security for M&A Due Diligence

Open Source and Third-Party Code Audit

Open Source and Third-Party Code Audits draw on the Black Duck KnowledgeBase™ to provide you with a complete open source bill of materials (BoM) for the target codebase, showing all open source components and associated license obligations and conflict analysis.

Open Source Risk Assessment

The OSRA builds on the Open Source and Third-Party Code Audit to provide a detailed view of open source risks in the codebase, including known security vulnerabilities and maintenance risks. Additionally, OSRA identifies encryption functions in use in applications so you can ensure compliance with internal, external, and governmental encryption requirements.  It relies on Black Duck Enhanced Vulnerability data not available in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), and can serve as a high-level action plan to prioritize research and potential remediation actions.

Web Services and API Risk Audit

The WSRA gives you a listing of the external web services used by an application, with insight into potential legal and data privacy risks. The summary report allows you to quickly evaluate web services risks across three key categories: governance, data privacy, and quality.

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Penetration Test Audits

Penetration Test (ethical hacking) Audits assess the security robustness of a software asset through an examination of the application in its full running state. They include exploratory risk analysis to bypass security controls (such as WAF and input validation) as well as attempts to abuse business logic and user authorization to demonstrate how hackers might gain access and cause damage. 

Static Application Security Test Audits

SAST Audits combine automated tool-based scans with a source code review to systematically find critical software security vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, and the rest of the OWASP Top 10.

Secure Design Review Audits

SDR evaluates the design of key security controls—including password storage, identity and access management, and use of cryptography—against industry best practices to determine whether any are misconfigured, weak, misused, or missing. SDR finds system defects related to security controls in the design of the application; no testing or analysis of the application or code is performed.

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Code Quality Audit

Code Quality Audits combine static analysis tools and manual code review to analyze code quality. Results are compared to industry benchmarks to assess quality, reusability, extensibility, and maintainability in proprietary code. Experts interpret the results and provide recommendations for addressing shortfalls in code quality.

Software Development Audit

Software Development Audits offer a complete analysis of the processes and practices that compose the software development life cycle (SDLC). Experts conduct in-depth interviews with a small number of key personnel to gain insight into the quality and maturity of development practices, including coding standards, processes, and tools. From this, they provide recommendations for improving code quality while reducing development and maintenance costs.

Design Quality Audit

Design Quality Audits use experienced architects and powerful architectural analysis tools powered by Silverthread, to assess overall architecture in terms of modularity and hierarchy, thus rounding out a complete picture of the health of the software. The report includes analysis on how the architecture impacts maintainability and identifies potential risk areas that are candidates for code refactoring.