Prisma Cloud is highlighted for its cost-effectiveness, security capabilities, and comprehensive features. Snyk is praised for its vulnerability detection capabilities. Both solutions could improve their user interface, Prisma Cloud users shared that documentation needs improvement, while Snyk could enhance its integration capabilities. The customer service for both products is highly rated.
The summary above is based on 150 interviews we conducted recently with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Snyk users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It provides insights into potential vulnerabilities in our code, helping us identify and rectify issues before they can be exploited."
"The CSPM and CWPP functionalities are pretty good."
"The solution's dashboard looks very user-friendly."
"The solution will streamline and minimize manual efforts."
"We found it to be easy and flexible. We could easily configure it for our needs, and we could spread the Prisma Cloud platform to 16 countries without encountering any kind of problem."
"The dynamic workload identity creation, attestation, and assignment is the best feature. In addition, the application dependency map across heterogeneous environments for compliance is a striking feature."
"The most valuable feature is the option to add custom queries using the RQL language that they supply so that we can customize the compliance frameworks to what we need to look for."
"Prisma Cloud is quite simple to use. The web GUI is powerful. Prisma Cloud scans the overall architecture of the AWS network to identify open ports and other vulnerabilities, then highlights them."
"Snyk performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools."
"The dependency checks of the libraries are very valuable, but the licensing part is also very important because, with open source components, licensing can be all over the place. Our project is not an open source project, but we do use quite a lot of open source components and we want to make sure that we don't have surprises in there."
"The most valuable feature of Snyk is the SBOM."
"I think all the standard features are quite useful when it comes to software component scanning, but I also like the new features they're coming out with, such as container scanning, secrets scanning, and static analysis with SAST."
"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."
"I find SCA to be valuable. It can read your libraries, your license and bring the best way to resolve your problem in the best scenario."
"Snyk is a developer-friendly product."
"The solution's vulnerability database, in terms of comprehensiveness and accuracy, is very high-level. As far as I know, it's the best among their competitors."
"One major observation is that it is not possible to implement Prisma Cloud on-premises. This is the limitation. Prisma Cloud itself is on a cloud. It is sitting on AWS and Google Cloud. It is a SaaS solution, but some of my clients have a local regulatory requirement, and they want to install it locally on their premises. That capability is not there, but government entities and ministries want to have Prisma Cloud installed locally."
"The solution does not currently support servers for GCP."
"Based on my experience, the customization—especially the interface and some of the product identification components—is not as customizable as it could be. But it makes up for that with the fact that we can access the API and then build our own systems to read the data and then process and parse it and hand it to our teams."
"Prisma Cloud supports generating CSV files, but I would also like it to generate PDF files for reporting."
"Palo Alto should work on ease-of-use and the user-friendliness to be more competitive with some competing products."
"It would be nice Prisma Cloud merged its modules for CSPM and infrastructure as code. It would simplify the pricing and make it easier for customers to evaluate the solution because there are different modules, and you need to add it to your subscription separately."
"There are hundreds of built-in policies for AWS and Azure, but GCP and Oracle are not covered as much as AWS. There is a lot of work to do on that part. There is, obviously, a tiny bit of favoritism towards AWS because it has the most market share."
"In terms of improvement, there are some small things like hardening and making sure the Linux resources are deployed well but that's more at an operational level."
"We use Bamboo for CI.CD, and we had problems integrating Snyk with it. Ultimately, we got the two solutions to work together, but it was difficult."
"The product is very expensive."
"One area where Snyk could improve is in providing developers with the line where the error occurs."
"The documentation sometimes is not relevant. It does not cover the latest updates, scanning, and configurations. The documentation for some things is wrong and does not cover some configuration scannings for the multiple project settings."
"It would be helpful if we get a recommendation while doing the scan about the necessary things we need to implement after identifying the vulnerabilities."
"The log export function could be easier when shipping logs to other platforms such as Splunk."
"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."
"Basically the licensing costs are a little bit expensive."
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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Container Security with 57 reviews while Snyk is ranked 5th in Container Security with 21 reviews. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Snyk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snyk writes "A cost-effective solution that makes scanning your repositories a cinch". Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP, whereas Snyk is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, Veracode and GitHub. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Snyk report.
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