Name: Software Due Diligence Best Practices: Ensuring Positive Outcomes in Tech M&A
Start: 2025-04-23T16:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-23T16:01:00.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Black Duck® offers the most comprehensive, powerful, and trusted portfolio of application security solutions in the industry. We have an unmatched track record of helping organizations around the world secure their software quickly, integrate security efficiently in their development environments, and safely innovate with new technologies. As the recognized leaders, experts, and innovators in software security, Black Duck has everything you need to build trust in your software.

As of October 1, 2024 the Synopsys Software Integrity Group is now Black Duck®

Leverage the power of policies to flag non-compliant components. With Black Duck SCA policies, create your own rules to determine 'non-compliance'. Join us in this webinar as we explore what policies are, how to configure them and how we can use them within our Black Duck SCA scans.

Black Duck SCA - Policy Management

Just as most software assets contain open source, modern software applications commonly include third party software functionality via calls to external web services via APIs. By using web services, developers may be inadvertently signing their companies up to terms of service or using a web service without a suitable agreement. Using these services can expose a company to compliance, security, data privacy, and operational risks that could disrupt or severely affect the business. As part of the tech M&A due diligence process, you should be aware of these web services-related risks so that you can make informed decisions about deal valuation and remediation.
 
Join us for a discussion about web services and how they can affect M&A and other transactions. We’ll cover:
 
• The legal compliance, data privacy, security, and business risks that come with web services
• Typical terms of service and common pitfalls
• Real-world examples of these risks
• How a buyer can get a better understanding of these risks in a target’s codebase or how a seller can prepare for diligence to avoid risks
 
Don’t miss this informative webinar. Register today.

Web Services & APIs: Impact on M&A and Other Transactions

Software is essential in everyday products like cars, medical devices, airplanes, and IoT devices. Bugs and security flaws can have serious impacts on safety, the environment, and your reputation. As AI speeds up software development, it's more important than ever to keep your policies, coding standards, and testing up to date.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
- Trends that offer innovation but also increase the risk of costly errors
- Updates to functional safety standards that improve software reliability
- How to reduce supply chain risks by getting a full view of your software
- Strengthening software with thorough testing techniques

Register now to learn practical tips for creating secure, reliable functional safety software in 2025 and beyond.

Building Safe and Reliable Software in 2025

Securing your software supply chain begins with knowing what’s in your code. With AI-generated code and ubiquitous open source software use, it’s never been more critical to understand what risks your software may contain. In fact, last year alone we found that 81% of codebases contained a high-/critical risk vulnerability.
 
Join this webinar as we explore the findings from the 2025 “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” report. We’ll cover:
 
• The state of open source software security
• Tips for mitigating risks and keeping vulnerabilities out of your supply chain
• How to protect against security and IP risks from AI coding tools

The 2025 Guide to Open Source Security and Risk

Discover how Code Sight, an innovative IDE integration by Black Duck Software, empowers developers to write secure code with confidence. Join us to learn how this powerful tool performs local SAST and SCA analysis directly in your development environment, enabling your engineering team to shift left in the software development lifecycle. By identifying vulnerabilities early, Code Sight provides developers with actionable insights before code is checked in, reducing rework, and improving overall security.

Build Secure Code Faster: Real-Time Vulnerability Scanning with Code Sight

As software applications grow more complex, so do the security challenges they face. This webinar dives into the critical importance of proper software vulnerability detection, highlighting how current public vulnerability reporting systems often fall short. We’ll explore why accuracy and timeliness in identifying and addressing security risks are non-negotiable and demonstrate how free or entry-level tools fail to meet the demands of modern application security.
 
Join us and discover strategies and solutions that go beyond basic approaches, ensuring your applications remain resilient in an ever-changing threat environment. This session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to elevate your security practices and protect what matters most.
 
Key takeaways:
- Why vulnerability detection is foundational to application security
- The pitfalls of public vulnerability reporting and how to navigate them
- The importance of accurate, timely responses to emerging threats
- Why free tools aren’t enough—and what to look for in advanced security solutions

Your AppSec Assessments Are Wrong, And Why It Matters

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system allows interested parties to track all the relevant information about a specific vulnerability. It helps avoid duplication and allows software vendors and users alike to ensure that they are referring to the same vulnerability in their efforts to protect systems against attack. 

In this 15 minute session, you’ll gain
• An understanding of what the CVE system is
• Knowledge of the stakeholders involved 
• Insight into the elements of a CVE ID
• A walkthrough of the CVE Record Lifecycle

CVE Explained

The world of application security can be overwhelming for newcomers. The technical jargon, complex solutions, and confusing methodologies make it hard to navigate. It’s essential to understand threat modeling and threat and risk analysis, but that can be difficult without the right guidance.

Here’s the good news: threat modeling at its core is intuitive and adaptable. With the right approach, it can be a powerful tool that helps you understand risks and make informed security decisions while aligning with your organization's unique needs.

In this webinar, we’ll break down the complexity of threat modeling. We'll address common questions and show why it’s a central part of application security. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of
• What threat modeling is and why it matters
• How to tailor threat modeling to fit your organization and industry
• Where to find resources for further learning and practical implementation

Threat Modeling: Charting Your Security Journey

Kubernetes is known for its ability to scale quickly, but does its security and management keep up with that growth? As your Kubernetes setup expands, it becomes harder to spot and fix potential problems.

Join our experts as they share modern ways to manage Kubernetes clusters and explain how to find misconfigurations and reduce risks.

In this discussion, you'll learn:
- A new way to look at and manage your Kubernetes clusters.
- How to spot dangerous misconfigurations and improve your cluster's security.

Don't miss out on learning how to secure your Kubernetes setup as it grows.

Securing Kubernetes Clusters: Managing Security and Risk

Modern applications are no longer created from scratch; instead they are constructed of various components, including open source code that is often developed by individuals outside the organization. Our research reveals that open source code makes up 76% of the average application.

Although leveraging open source software provides access to external expertise, it also entails responsibilities for organizations. Ensuring the security, compliance, and quality of the code is crucial. This is where software composition analysis (SCA) plays a significant role.

Join this discussion that explores the following topics:

o What SCA is and how it functions
o Addressing risks through SCA
o Key elements of an effective SCA solution
o Building a comprehensive open source risk management program with SCA

What Is Software Composition Analysis?

There is no shortage of buzz around generative artificial intelligence (GAI). GAI can be used in software development to generate and augment code which saves times and reduces development cycles. But using AI in software development comes with its own set of risks.

Join this webinar to get an introduction to GAI and how you can minimize risk when using it in your organization. We’ll cover:

• What GAI is and how machines learn
• Legal issues with AI including copyright, web scraping, and more
• Overview of current litigation
• Practical approaches to using GAI while minimizing risk

Best Practices for Using AI in Software Development

The Board and C-Suite are starting to take notice of the opportunities and risks inherent with powerful new generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools that can quickly create text, code, images, and other media. Product Development and Engineering teams want to use such tools to increase productivity by at least one order of magnitude. In response, the Security, Legal, and Compliance teams typically raise legitimate concerns about the risks involved. What role can the Board and C-Suite play in this situation?
 
Join this live Synopsys webinar to get a jump start on what AI strategy, security, and governance looks like from the Board-level and C-suite. We’ll cover:
 
• Fundamentals of AI, types of models, and data used to inform them
• Expanding existing processes and procedures to address the security risks of GAI
• The top three questions the Board and C-Suite should be asking about GAI
• How to navigate the existing and evolving legal and regulatory landscape

Fundamentals of AI Strategy, Security, and Governance

In February 2024, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 update was released, featuring the latest advancements. This update brings a host of transformative changes, expanding the framework's scope. It also provides stronger governance and supply chain risk management. There are also refining metrics for assessing cybersecurity effectiveness. 

Join this webinar to learn about
• The long-anticipated CSF 2.0 update
• The implications of the changes in the 2.0 update 
• Leveraging these changes to improve current cybersecurity programs

Embracing the Future of Cybersecurity with NIST CSF 2.0

Gone are the days when you only had to worry about the code your developers are writing. Now you have to think about a complex supply chain, which includes everything from open source dependencies and APIs to containers, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD toolchains. Recent supply chain attacks, along with the U.S. executive order on cybersecurity, have organizations re-evaluating the security of their software supply chains. 

In this webinar, our expert panelists will discuss 
• Why securing your supply chain means more than having an accurate software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
• What the executive order and other initiatives mean for software producers and consumers
• What security and development teams need to do to manage new and evolving supply chain threats

Learn what you can do to enhance the security of your software supply chain. Register now.

Securing the Software Supply Chain: More Than Just an SBOM?

Containerized applications and microservices simplify scaling and deployment. Yet, they also create new opportunities for attackers to exploit. Misconfigurations in these environments can allow attackers to hide, move, and launch advanced attacks.
 
Join us for a deep dive into common container misconfigurations. We'll dive into Black Duck’s extensive experience in container penetration testing.
 
What you’ll learn:
    •    Common misconfigurations found in containerized environments.
    •    How attackers exploit these vulnerabilities to compromise systems.
    •    Strategies to reduce risks and enhance container security.

Understanding Container Security: Common Misconfigurations

AI coding assistants, such as Microsoft CoPilot and ChatGPT, will fundamentally change the way teams build software, much like open source software has over the last decade. As with open source, teams seeking the benefits of AI will also need to take precautions to address the security, quality, and intellectual property risks that come with the use of AI-generated code. Is your team ready for AI? 

In this webinar, we'll explore: 

Key risks teams might encounter using coding assistants 

Safeguards needed for confident use of AI-generated code

Managing the risks of AI-generated code

Security is the result of implementing the tools, personnel, and insight necessary to make informed decisions to mitigate risks within the software you create and the assets you consume through the software supply chain. While this process can be elaborate, rapid releases and CI/CD methodologies require that AppSec move at the speed of DevOps.

Achieving this is only possible with integrated controls and mechanisms to detect, prioritize, and address security issues at every stage in the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines. But how do you get there?

Join us as we recommend ways to establish security within DevOps without sacrificing efficiency. We’ll discuss:
- Pitfalls that can derail an organization’s AppSec initiative
- Strategies for overcoming obstacles to efficient, effective DevSecOps
- Recommendations for realizing integrated DevSecOps at scale

Integrating AppSec for Efficient DevSecOps

Software due diligence is critical to understanding the risks in the software you’re acquiring, and planning for post-close. What’s in the code, including open source risks, security vulnerabilities, and software quality, as well as the process by which it was developed, matters with integration planning. With fast-moving deals and tight due diligence timelines, how does your due diligence playbook stack up?  

Join this fireside chat-style webinar for a discussion about the importance of software due diligence and best practices for mitigating risk in M&A. We’ll cover:  

• How audits can surface risk and what that means for a deal
• Why software due diligence is more than just an open source audit
• Implications of generative AI in software development
• Planning for success

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