Snyk — DevSecOps Automation
| Activities: Y/H | Diagnostics: Y/H | Provisioning: P/M |
| Event ontology: P/M | Observability: P/L | Confidence: High |
Build style / interface — Cloud-native SaaS platform complemented by open-source CLI and IDE plugins. Developers interact via IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.), CI/CD pipelines, and pull request checks; security teams use a centralized web console and APIs.
What it actually does — Provides a unified developer security platform covering SAST (Snyk Code), SCA (Snyk Open Source), container security (Snyk Container), and infrastructure-as-code scanning (Snyk IaC). Detects vulnerabilities, license issues, and misconfigurations early in development and CI/CD, enforces policies, gates pull requests, and continuously monitors deployed projects for newly disclosed issues.
Data / telemetry — Vulnerability findings, dependency graphs, container image layers, IaC configuration metadata, license data, scan results, policy violations, and remediation status. Uses Snyk’s proprietary vulnerability database enriched with CVE and package metadata.
Interoperability — Deep integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, CircleCI, and other CI systems; IDE integrations; Slack, Jira, ServiceNow; REST APIs, webhooks, and open-source CLI for custom workflows.
Deployment model — SaaS (multi-tenant or single-tenant) with optional on-prem Snyk Broker for private repositories; CLI runs locally or in CI/CD environments.
Notes — Strong shift-left DevSecOps platform focused on developer experience and security governance; emphasizes prevention and policy enforcement rather than runtime observability or remediation execution.
🧠 UKM Snapshots
ingest Y/M, index Y/M, retrieval Y/M, governance P/M, overall medium
Note: Backed by Snyk’s proprietary vulnerability knowledge base; limited beyond security-domain knowledge.
⚙️ UAM Snapshots
ingest P/M, index P/M, retrieval P/M, governance P/M, overall medium
Note: User and team management focused on security workflows; limited cross-domain activity modeling.
🔍 UDM Snapshots
ingest Y/H, index Y/H, retrieval Y/H, governance Y/M, overall high
Note: Unified security data model across code, dependencies, containers, and IaC with consistent vulnerability semantics.
👁️ UOM Snapshots
ingest P/L, index P/L, retrieval P/L, governance P/L, overall low
Note: Not a general observability platform; focuses on security findings rather than metrics, logs, or traces.
🧬 UEOM Snapshots
ingest P/M, index P/M, retrieval P/M, governance P/M, overall medium
Note: Event model centered on security findings and policy violations.
🚀 UPM Snapshots
ingest P/M, index P/M, retrieval P/M, governance Y/M, overall medium
Note: Enforces security policies and CI/CD gating; does not provision infrastructure or perform automated remediation beyond PR fixes.
Latest updates — Expanded AI-assisted code analysis, improved reachability analysis, and broader IaC coverage (2024–2025).
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