Organizations Achieve 288% ROI with The Snyk AI Trust Platform, According to New Forrester TEI Study

We've always believed that empowering developers to build securely is the most effective path to a secure, fast, and innovative business. Now, the definitive data is in.

We are thrilled to announce the availability of a new commissioned study, The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Snyk, conducted by Forrester Consulting. This in-depth analysis of Snyk customers shows the significant financial and operational impact of unifying application security on the Snyk AI Trust Platform.

For any security leader or developer champion looking to make a business case for a developer-first security platform, this study is indispensable.

We’re proud to report that a Forrester Consulting study found that a composite organization based on interviewed customers using Snyk achieved a 288% Return on Investment (ROI) over 3 years. This considerable return is driven by a powerful trifecta of benefits: improved developer productivity, an enhanced security posture, and significant AppSec tool consolidation. 

The hard numbers: Quantifying the impact of Snyk

The Forrester TEI study interviewed decision makers across four organizations using Snyk and aggregated their experiences into a single composite organization (an industry-agnostic, $15 billion company with 2,500 developers). The quantified, risk-adjusted results over three years demonstrate serious savings and value, equating to a $15.4 million Net Present Value (NPV) and a payback period of less than six months.

Key findings from the analysis include:

• Faster Scans, reclaimed time: Developers achieved up to 80% faster scan times, resulting in 84,000 hours reclaimed annually from time-consuming, frustrating processes.

• Accelerated remediation: Vulnerability remediation times were 60% faster, avoiding 72,000 hours of rework annually and freeing up developers to focus on delivering product features.

• Issue prevention: Remediation times for issues fixed in local development, and thereby prevented from being introduced into runtime with Snyk, were even faster: Developers reduced time to fix by 75% for each issue caught with shift-left security efforts.

• Reduced risk exposure: Organizations saw a 52% reduction in annualized risk exposure from a cyber breach due to improvements in mean-time-to-remediation (MTTR) and prevention of new vulnerabilities.

• Tool consolidation: Customers are consolidating functionality previously dispersed across multiple solutions, with the composite organization consolidating four AppSec solutions down to one with Snyk.

Shifting left for a culture of secure development

The considerable financial returns are rooted in a foundational shift in how security is handled—moving it out of the last minute and into the developer workflow. Snyk’s platform empowers developers to own security by providing context, AI-enabled fix suggestions, and learning directly in the tools they use, like the IDE.

Beyond a technical implementation, Snyk empowers cultural transformation. As one customer, a VP of Product Security and Privacy in the media and telecommunications industry, noted:

"Snyk helps us shift our application security left into the development environment for our developers. So, it's really the first line of defense when it comes to preventing issues, identifying risks, and preventing risk at the company." 

This developer-centric approach leads to an accelerated software development lifecycle because developers are less likely to encounter major security slowdowns or "fire-fighting" in production. Instead, they focus on delivering business value.

The strategic value of the Snyk AI Trust Platform

The future of application development is intertwined with AI. The TEI study also shows the strategic value of the Snyk AI Trust Platform, particularly its ability to support and secure the growing use of AI coding techniques in development workflows. This flexibility ensures that organizations are positioned to grow and innovate securely, aligning Snyk with their future business needs.

The ability to move from multiple disparate tools to the Snyk AI Trust Platform eliminates licensing and support costs for redundant solutions. This platform strategy means security leaders can finally gain a unified view across SCA, SAST, DAST, Container, and IaC, which brings together developer security testing with AppSec governance capabilities to simplify management and ensure consistent security policy enforcement.

The findings of this Forrester TEI study make the value proposition clear: Snyk is an investment that pays for itself—and then some, with a potential payback period of <6 months. 

Read the full analysis to understand how this 288% ROI was calculated and what a similar investment could mean for your organization. Download The Total Economic Impact™ Of Snyk today!