Production uptime is the mission. Ungoverned OT software is the threat to it.
27% of OT incidents enter through transient devices and contractor access. The supply chain is the attack vector. X-DLM™ makes it visible and governed.
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The production line is the target. The software supply chain is the attack vector.
Of OT security incidents are caused by transient devices — USB drives, contractor laptops, and field service connections. The threat enters through the same channels that operations teams manage daily. Source: IIoT World 2026.
Average cost of a dual IT/OT cyberattack in 2026 — significantly higher than IT-only incidents due to production disruption, physical plant recovery, and manufacturing downtime. Source: Industrial Cyber / PwC 2026.
Of OT devices are currently linked to active ransomware campaigns targeting industrial environments. Manufacturing is the number one affected sector. Source: Claroty 2026.
Median time-to-exploit for critical vulnerabilities in 2026. For OT environments with patching cycles measured in months, BDSA's 3-week early warning is the only buffer between detection and exploitation.
Sources: IIoT World 2026. Industrial Cyber / PwC 2026. Claroty 2026. Mondoo 2026 State of Vulnerabilities.
Governance that protects the production line — without requiring the production line to stop.
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Visibility into what software is running in your OT environment
Black Duck generates a complete SBOM inventory of every open-source component, third-party library, and firmware dependency across the software stack of your industrial products and automation systems — the supply chain visibility that shows where contractor and vendor software introduces risk before it reaches production.
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Vulnerability governance that respects production reality
X-DLM™ routes every Black Duck finding into a Polarion work item that supports the production environment's actual response options: patch during scheduled maintenance window, apply compensating control (network segmentation, monitoring), or document formal risk acceptance. All three are valid. All three are governed. None require stopping the line for unplanned work.
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Contractor and vendor access governance
27% of OT incidents originate from transient devices and vendor connections. X-DLM™ provides the software supply chain governance that documents every third-party component entering the OT environment — whether through a contractor laptop, a software update, or a remote connection — with owner assignment and change control records.
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EU CRA compliance that doesn't disrupt production
EU CRA requires industrial manufacturers to govern software security across the full product lifecycle — including updates and patches for the 5-year minimum support period. X-DLM™ makes that governance continuous, automated, and embedded in the development workflow — not a periodic manual exercise that creates production risk by compressing change windows.
See how Siemens Polarion and Black Duck become one governed software risk workflow.
X-DLM™ turns Black Duck software supply chain intelligence into Siemens Polarion work items, requirements links, approvals, escalation paths, and continuously maintained evidence.
Brand authority buyers recognize
Backed by Siemens lifecycle governance and Black Duck AppSec intelligence.
Siemens Polarion ALM
Polarion provides the lifecycle system of record for requirements, tests, approvals, traceability, workflow automation, audit evidence, and regulated software delivery.
Black Duck Software Composition Analysis
Black Duck identifies open source and third-party components across source, binaries, containers, firmware, snippets, AI-generated code, and C/C++ environments without package managers.
Industrial automation companies answer to three simultaneous EU frameworks in 2026.
EU CRA requires SBOM and secure-by-design evidence for every industrial product with digital elements. IEC 62443 provides the certified path to CRA conformity — but certification is not automatic equivalence. The EU Machinery Regulation, enforced from January 2027, adds Safety-Related Security Levels on top. All three require overlapping evidence. One governed system covers all three.
View EU CRA, IEC 62443 & All Frameworks →Production continuity starts with knowing what software is running in your plant.
And proving every risk decision was governed.
See how X-DLM™ integrates Black Duck and Siemens Polarion to give industrial plant operations leaders the OT software supply chain visibility, governed vulnerability response, and EU CRA compliance evidence that protects production continuity without disrupting it.