SNYK VS Black Duck

Why choose Snyk over Black Duck for AppSec?

Snyk drives innovation with continual investment and improvement, automating security in the tools and workflows developers use while providing the visibility, governance, and reporting security teams need.

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Snyk and Black Duck comparison

See why AppSec teams pick Snyk over Black Duck when they look for a security platform.

Features

Snyk

Black Duck

Fast, accurate scanning and scalable rollout

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Snyk is a lightweight cloud platform designed for a quick, efficient roll-out with minimal maintenance resources required. Snyk scans your code fast as it’s being written — averaging speeds 2.4x faster than similar solutions with high accuracy scores on the OWASP benchmark and increasing developer utilization of scans.

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Black Duck requires a separate installation to take advantage of the individual products.

Developer-first experience

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Snyk offers real-time, actionable insights and one-click fixes that embed security early in the SDLC. Seamlessly integrates into Pull Request developer workflows with additional context to make decisions faster.

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Black Duck doesn't provide AI remediation directly in the IDE, and pull request integration requires manual configuration.

Risk-based prioritization

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Snyk AppRisk helps security teams reduce overall risk and determine what to fix first by 1) creating a holistic picture of risk across all assets with application, development, and business context and 2) prioritizing the riskiest assets and vulnerabilities based on factors such as whether code has been deployed or is executed in runtime.

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Black Duck Software Risk Manager (SRM) may have many integrations, but the resulting output is a long list of vulns with no prioritization or data enrichment. There is no way to cut through the noise.

One platform, one UX

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All of Snyk’s products are integrated into one platform with a single, seamless user experience.

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To manage application risk at scale, Black Duck requires multiple products, including Software Risk Manager in addition to either Coverity, Blackduck, or Polaris. Software Risk Manager which requires hardware acquisition, installation, configuration, integration setups, and regular management, including backups.

Embed real-time security into the dev toolkit with Snyk

Your security team is outnumbered by developers. Snyk’s real-time SAST and SCA vulnerability scanning and automated fix suggestions in the IDE and PR workflows ensure security from the start at speed and scale.

Prioritize risk across your application

Conduct a holistic, context-driven risk assessment of your entire application so that you can address the most critical security threats first.

Light-as-air cloud platform

Focus on developing with Snyk’s lightweight cloud platform instead of managing on-premise installation and maintenance.

One platform, one login, a unified UI

Choose a tool that makes you faster and more efficient. Snyk’s single-login, unified platform approach lets you focus on your applications.

Trusted by industry leaders

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Millions of developers build securely with Snyk

“When it comes to developer productivity gains, the recent explosion of generative AI innovation has been welcomed by many with a mixture of enthusiasm and relief. As a security leader, however, my foremost responsibility is to ensure that all of the code we create, whether AI-generated or human-written, is secure by design. By using Snyk Code’s AI static analysis and its latest innovation, DeepCode AI Fix, our development and security teams can now ensure we’re both shipping software faster as well as more securely.”

Steve Pugh

CISO, ICE/NYSE

Snyk was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant published in April 2024 for Application Security Testing, as well as a Leader and the Customer Favorite in the 2024 Forrester Wave: Software Composition Analysis. Snyk was also named a 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Application Security Testing, and a “vendor who shaped the year” in the IDC report for Worldwide Application Vulnerability Management Market Shares, 2023: Evolving Application Security with GenAI, Developer Experience, and a Holistic View of Risk.

Snyk customers realized savings of an average of $5.08 Million based on risk avoidance and developer efficiency gains, as well as a 70% increase in automated remediation.

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