Export Control Forum - Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of software compliance management solutions, today announced enhancements to exportIP™, the industry’s first software compliance platform that helps ensure software products do not violate government restrictions regarding encryption export. New features within exportIP 1.3 include a role-based interface to improve security and ease of use, an expanded CryptoBase™, additional reporting options and a Command Line Interface.

Among the enhancements, exportIP 1.3 gives end users specific control over the product based on their roles in the export encryption control process. exportIP now supports three sets of permission profiles geared to the roles of the engineering manager, the export specialist, and the system administrator. By tailoring information to each user’s role, this enhancement makes the product easier to use, and it increases the overall security of the solution, as those users receive an appropriate level of control over the process. The export specialist has more approval power than the engineering manager, for example.

“Building a way to manage and automate export encryption compliance for all players involved is vital to application development,” said Douglas Levin, president and CEO of Black Duck Software. “These enhancements to exportIP help companies better manage the export regulation process. With Black Duck’s family of solutions, companies fully capitalize on today’s application development models by managing potential issues from the moment the code is written to the moment it is finalized.”

BlackDuck unveiled exportIP 1.3 at the Export Control Forum, hosted by the Bureau of Industry Security, the part of the U.S. Commerce Department that explains and enforces encryption rules. Export Control Forum is being held March 19, 2007 in Newport Beach, Calif.

exportIP identifies encryption algorithms within software code and ensures that companies comply with export restrictions applicable to those algorithms. exportIP helps software developers, engineering managers, legal counsel, and export encryption policy developers within companies with their respective compliance issues, avoiding delays and allowing maximum productivity benefits from today’s software development techniques.

Other exportIP 1.3 enhancements

The exportIP CryptoBase, which the platform compares to developed code to ensure that encryption algorithms within the code are in compliance with government regulations, is enhanced in the new version. The CryptoBase now contains thousands of libraries and over 500 public and private encryption algorithms.

exportIP 1.3 also includes additional reporting options to meet a wider range of user requirements and to allow data to be saved in various standard file formats. Finally, the product now includes support for a Command Line Interface (CLI), which customers rely on for greater flexibility in integrating the platform into their developer environments.

Pricing and Availability

exportIP 1.3 is available immediately. For more information, including pricing and purchasing, please visit the Black Duck website (www.blackducksoftware.com).

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software^TM is the leading provider of software compliance management solutions that help companies govern how software assets are created, managed and licensed. Black Duck's offerings help businesses take maximum advantage of open source software while at the same time ensure that they satisfy the obligations associated with the code they use. Black Duck's customer base includes enterprises, product developers, outsourcers, law firms and other organizations worldwide that are concerned with protection of software intellectual property. For more information about Black Duck, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.