Kiuwan and Snyk compete in the application security market. Kiuwan seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive lifecycle management and advanced analytics, while Snyk excels with developer-friendly integration and a robust vulnerability database.
Features: Kiuwan provides detailed application governance and advanced analytics for large organizations with legacy systems. It performs fast, accurate scans and creates specific action plans. Snyk offers seamless integration with cloud CI systems and a developer-friendly environment. Its CLI and comprehensive vulnerability database are highly praised.
Room for Improvement: Kiuwan could expand its language support and improve integration with tools like IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code. Users report issues with false positives and report downloads. Snyk needs to support more languages and enhance real-time developer feedback. Better IDE integration and a clearer reporting structure are also needed for Snyk.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Kiuwan offers flexible deployment options, including public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid. However, its support system is less responsive, relying on email. Snyk provides extensive deployment options and excellent customer support, although some integration environments pose challenges.
Pricing and ROI: Kiuwan is cost-effective, with pricing based on lines of code scanned, offering significant ROI. Snyk is more expensive but valued for its comprehensive developer-focused features and easy integration, delivering worthwhile security and efficiency value to organizations despite the cost.
Software analytics technology with a breadth of third party integrations that takes into account the wealth of applications your teams are currently using.
We facilitate and encourage work between unlocalized teams. We understand the complexity of working on multi technology environments, constantly striving to increase the number of programming languages and technologies we support.
Snyk is a user-friendly security solution that enables users to safely develop and use open source code. Users can create automatic scans that allow them to keep a close eye on their code and prevent bad actors from exploiting vulnerabilities. This enables users to find and remove vulnerabilities soon after they appear.
Benefits of Snyk
Some of the benefits of using Snyk include:
Reviews from Real Users
Snyk is a security platform for developers that stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to integrate with other security solutions and important insights that it can enable users to discover. Snyk enables users to combine its already existing security features with those of other solutions to create far more robust and flexible layers of security than what it can supply on its own. It gives users the ability to dig into the security issues that they may experience. Users are given a clear view of the root causes of these problems. This equips them to address the problem and prevent similar issues in the future.
Cameron G., a security software engineer at a tech company, writes, “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. Snyk is something of a bridge that we use; we get our projects into it and then get the information out of it. Those two integrations are crucial for us to be able to do that pretty simply.”
Sean M., the chief information security officer of a technology vendor, writes, "From the software composition analysis perspective, it first makes sure that we understand what is happening from a third-party perspective for the particular product that we use. This is very difficult when you are building software and incorporating dependencies from other libraries, because those dependencies have dependencies and that chain of dependencies can go pretty deep. There could be a vulnerability in something that is seven layers deep, and it would be very difficult to understand that is even affecting us. Therefore, Snyk provides fantastic visibility to know, "Yes, we have a problem. Here is where it ultimately comes from." It may not be with what we're incorporating, but something much deeper than that."
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