Veracode vs Snyk

Choose Veracode Over Snyk

Snyk appears robust at first, but it lacks native production scanning, has limited scalability, and suffers from high false positives, making it less effective for comprehensive AppSec programs.

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Unmasking the illusions of Snyk

When it comes to accuracy, governance, remediation and truly managing application risk, Snyk falls short. With higher false positives, you’re chasing the wrong issues or risking vulnerabilities slipping through the cracks. And don’t even get us started on accountability. Developers can simply ignore findings, leaving AppSec teams in the dark. So, ask yourself, do you want a scanning tool or an integrated platform that covers you from code to cloud?

Unrivaled application security that delivers

Capabilities	Veracode	Snyk
Point solutions or holistic platform	Veracode delivers an integrated platform that scans applications from code to cloud connecting dev and security teams.	Snyk scans before deployment with SAST and SCA but cannot offer scanning in production environments natively.
Developer-friendly Appsec program	Veracode integrates where the developers work, and helps organizations build an AppSec program that reduces risk with robust policies and reporting. It’s the expertise that has built thousands of AppSec programs.	Snyk lacks scale for full AppSec programs with limited policies and reporting. And on risk, Snyk allows developers to ignore findings, leaving security teams in the dark.
IDE integrations	Veracode streamlines the process of scanning and securing code with popular IDE plugins for Eclipse, Visual Studio, VS Code, and IntelliJ family which includes IntelliJ, PyCharm, Android Studio & Ryder.	Snyk claims to offer 12 IDE integrations but 9 of them are for one JetBrains plugin.
Coverage of languages and frameworks	Veracode delivers market leading coverage with over 30+ languages and 100+ frameworks. On average, we cover more CWEs than Snyk, especially in C# and JAVA.	Snyk supports less than half of the languages and frameworks Veracode supports.
Quality results and remediations	Veracode findings offer the lowest false positive rate out of the box, without extensive tuning. Veracode Fix uses AI for scale and speed, backed by proprietary security research – because AI models trained on open-source are vulnerable to manipulation and poisoning.	Snyk detection and remediation are impacted both by noisy findings due to high false positive rates and fewer detectable flaw types.
Policy and reporting	Detailed reporting and customizable dashboards for presentations, along with Peer Benchmarking.	Limited policies and reporting.

Unrivaled application security that delivers

Capabilities:

Point solutions or holistic platform

Veracode:

Veracode delivers an integrated platform that scans applications from code to cloud connecting dev and security teams.

Snyk:

Snyk scans before deployment with SAST and SCA but cannot offer scanning in production environments natively.

Capabilities:

Developer-friendly Appsec program

Veracode:

Veracode integrates where the developers work, and helps organizations build an AppSec program that reduces risk with robust policies and reporting. It’s the expertise that has built thousands of AppSec programs.

Snyk:

Snyk lacks scale for full AppSec programs with limited policies and reporting. And on risk, Snyk allows developers to ignore findings, leaving security teams in the dark.

Capabilities:

IDE integrations

Veracode:

Veracode streamlines the process of scanning and securing code with popular IDE plugins for Eclipse, Visual Studio, VS Code, and IntelliJ family which includes IntelliJ, PyCharm, Android Studio & Ryder.

Snyk:

Snyk claims to offer 12 IDE integrations but 9 of them are for one JetBrains plugin.

Capabilities:

Coverage of languages and frameworks

Veracode:

Veracode delivers market leading coverage with over 30+ languages and 100+ frameworks. On average, we cover more CWEs than Snyk, especially in C# and JAVA.

Snyk:

Snyk supports less than half of the languages and frameworks Veracode supports.

Capabilities:

Quality results and remediations

Veracode:

Veracode findings offer the lowest false positive rate out of the box, without extensive tuning. Veracode Fix uses AI for scale and speed, backed by proprietary security research – because AI models trained on open-source are vulnerable to manipulation and poisoning.

Snyk:

Snyk detection and remediation are impacted both by noisy findings due to high false positive rates and fewer detectable flaw types.

Capabilities:

Policy and reporting

Veracode:

Detailed reporting and customizable dashboards for presentations, along with Peer Benchmarking.

Snyk:

Limited policies and reporting.

Make the Move to Veracode

The combination of our powerful application security platform and fast time to value means your overall software security posture is better and continuously improving. The Veracode platform connects your development and security teams to secure your code to cloud.

Don’t just take our word for it

Digite

“Veracode’s scanning engine is more innovative and provides a more detailed analysis relative to Snyk and AppScan. It performs much better in terms of the number of issues discovered.“

Deepak Naik Chief Security Officer

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