We performed a comparison between Snyk and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Snyk is praised for its developer-friendly approach, seamless integration, compatibility with containers, and partnership with Docker. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is renowned for following security best practices. Users like its lightweight cloud-integrated agent integrated and its ability to leverage AI for endpoint protection. Snyk could enhance its compatibility and expand its vulnerability database. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security's user interface could use an update.
Service and Support: Snyk support has received positive feedback about the helpfulness and responsiveness of their team, but others want Snyk to manage support requests better. Customers of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security are mostly satisfied with their customer service.
Ease of Deployment: Users generally find the initial setup for Snyk to be simple and smooth, with excellent assistance from the Snyk team. The initial setup for CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is also manageable, but a few users required support during deployment and faced difficulties with Kubernetes implementation.
Pricing: Snyk has considered more expensive than other solutions, while CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is regarded as reasonably priced. However, the cloud option for CrowdStrike can be more costly than many on-premises alternatives.
ROI: Snyk provides a budget-friendly option for finding open-source vulnerabilities, which may offset the yearly subscription costs. CrowdStrike's return on investment is not fixed and relies heavily on such factors as the industry and implementation approach.
Comparison Results: Snyk is generally preferred over CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. Users appreciate Snyk's ease of setup, developer-friendly nature, and robust feature set. Snyk's compatibility with containers and partnership with Docker make it a popular choice for developers. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security could improve its user interface and pricing to become more competitive.
"It is fully cloud-based, so we don't need to invest in third-party agents repeatedly."
"The initial setup is easy ."
"Cloud security is one valuable feature. Spotlight is the other one. There is also vulnerability management and a couple of more features."
"Technical support is helpful."
"There is a lot that it can do, but endpoint protection is the main thing about it. The fact that it uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor and remediate the issues in real-time is probably the bread and butter of the product."
"The RTR feature stands out as particularly valuable to me due to its capability to log into machines."
"The most significant benefit is how quickly malware and other malicious attacks are detected."
"It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats."
"The most valuable feature of Snyk is the software composition analysis."
"The solution's Open Source feature gives us notifications and suggestions regarding how to address vulnerabilities."
"It is one of the best product out there to help developers find and fix vulnerabilities quickly. When we talk about the third-party software vulnerability piece and potentially security issues, it takes the load off the user or developer. They even provide automitigation strategies and an auto-fix feature, which seem to have been adopted pretty well."
"The advantage of Snyk is that Snyk automatically creates a pull request for all the findings that match or are classified according to the policy that we create. So, once we review the PR within Snyk and we approve the PR, Snyk auto-fixes the issue, which is quite interesting and which isn't there in any other product out there. So, Snyk is a step ahead in this particular area."
"It is easy for developers to use. The documentation is clear as well as the APIs are good and easily readable. It's a good solution overall."
"It's very easy for developers to use. Onboarding was an easy process for all of the developers within the company. After a quick, half-an-hour to an hour session, they were fully using it on their own. It's very straightforward. Usability is definitely a 10 out of 10."
"The most valuable features are their GitLab and JIRA integrations. The GitLab integration lets us pull projects in pretty easily, so that it's pretty minimal for developers to get it set up. Using the JIRA integration, it's also pretty easy to get the information that is generated, as a result of that GitLab integration, back to our teams in a non-intrusive way and in a workflow that we are already using."
"The most valuable features of Snyk are vulnerability scanning and automation. The automation the solution brings around vulnerability scanning is useful."
"Different file options should be available, and clients should be able to select from the options."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is expensive."
"One area for improvement in Falcon Cloud Security is the support portal."
"The only challenge lies in token verification."
"It gets the work done, but the main problem with the solution is that if you remediate anything, it takes 45 days for you to get any of the features displayed on the dashboard. This is the real weakness of CrowdStrike. Their customer support is also not ready to help with it. If you remediate any cloud vulnerability that they are giving you, such as removing a host from your organization, it takes around 45 days for them to remove it from their console."
"The UI part needs to be improved."
"It would be more convenient if there was an easier way to install CrowdStrike, perhaps through better integration with Active Directory."
"The threat intelligence and user behavioral analysis could be more comprehensive."
"Offering API access in the lower or free open-source tiers would be better. That would help our customers. If you don't have an enterprise plan, it becomes challenging to integrate with the rest of the systems. Our customers would like to have some open-source integrations in the next release."
"There are some new features that we would like to see added, e.g., more visibility into library usage for the code. Something along the lines where it's doing the identification of where vulnerabilities are used, etc. This would cause them to stand out in the market as a much different platform."
"DAST has shortcomings, and Snyk needs to improve and overcome such shortcomings."
"The tool needs improvement in license compliance. I would like to see the integration of better policy management in the product's future release. When it comes to the organization that I work for, there are a lot of business units since we are a group of companies. Each of these companies has its specific requirements and its own appetite for risk. This should be able to reflect in flexible policies. We need to be able to configure policies that can be adjusted later or overridden by the business unit that is using the product."
"We were using Microsoft Docker images. It was reporting some vulnerabilities, but we were not able to figure out the fix for them. It was reporting some vulnerabilities in the Docker images given by Microsoft, which were out of our control. That was the only limitation. Otherwise, it was good."
"Scalability has some issues because we have a lot of code and its use is mandatory. Therefore, it can be slow at times, especially because there are a lot of projects and reporting. Some UI improvements could help with this."
"It lists projects. So, if you have a number of microservices in an enterprise, then you could have pages of findings. Developers will then spend zero time going through the pages of reports to figure out, "Is there something I need to fix?" While it may make sense to list all the projects and issues in these very long lists for completeness, Snyk could do a better job of bubbling up and grouping items, e.g., a higher level dashboard that draws attention to things that are new, the highest priority things, or things trending in the wrong direction. That would make it a lot easier. They don't quite have that yet in container security."
"The product is very expensive."
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CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is ranked 9th in Container Security with 13 reviews while Snyk is ranked 5th in Container Security with 41 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is rated 8.8, while Snyk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security writes "Enhances the overall safety of our company's environment from cyber threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Qualys VMDR and AWS Security Hub, whereas Snyk is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, GitHub Advanced Security, Fortify Static Code Analyzer and Veracode. See our CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security vs. Snyk report.
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