Black Duck conducts hundreds of open source code audits annually, primarily related to Merger & Acquisition transactions. Its Center for Open Source Research & Innovation (COSRI) analyzed 1,071 applications audited during 2016 and found both high levels of open source usage – 96% of the apps contained open source – and significant risk to open source security vulnerabilities – more than 60% of the apps contained open source security vulnerabilities.

Notably, audit results of applications from the financial industry contained 52 open source vulnerabilities per application, and 60% of the applications contained high-risk vulnerabilities.