Meeting the AI Mandates with Confidence: Why Federal Teams Trust Snyk

Federal agencies are moving fast to unlock AI's potential—from improving citizen services to driving mission outcomes. But with all that innovation comes a new wave of complexity and risk. Security, trust, and transparency can’t be afterthoughts. They need to be part of the build and AI adoption process from day one. 

AI-driven development is exponentially increasing both code speed and code insecurity, as AI generates code with up to 40% more vulnerabilities than human developers. Agencies need to identify, track, fix, and manage all of this continuously. With Snyk for Government, agencies can “shift left” to deliver applications that are Secure-by-Design. This includes:

• Spotting and fixing risks early—automatically and at scale

• Keeping developers moving fast while staying compliant

• Building AI systems that are secure from the ground up

How Snyk is supporting new federal AI mandates

Secure, governed, and safe AI development

As agencies embrace AI, expectations around security and governance are front and center. Snyk helps teams meet those expectations with tools that focus on real technical risks—not subjective filters.

• Credible vulnerability intelligence: Sourced from standards-based orgs like CVE, CWE, and NIST.

• Integrated into your pipeline: From GitHub to Terraform to container registries—Snyk fits your workflow, not the other way around.

• Accelerate identification and remediation: Snyk Agent Fix offers a self hosted LLM to provide secure, pre-validated fixes for issues. 

Scaling secure AI infrastructure

New funding and fast-tracked initiatives mean federal developers need security tools that keep up.

• FedRAMP authorized: Snyk is cleared for use across federal cloud environments.

• Automation where it counts: Agentic tools like Snyk Assist and Snyk Agent Fix surface issues and fix them before they ship.

Build with trusted AI systems

As global collaboration increases, secure supply chains are more important than ever. Snyk helps you ship software that’s secure, auditable, and globally trusted.

• Standards-aligned: Support for SBOMs, AIBOMS, international compliance, and NIST-aligned policies.

• Agentic AI security: Governance that scales to GenAI assistants and LLMs—wherever and however they run.

• Broad ecosystem support: Integrates with the open tools your dev teams already use.

Meet the Snyk AI Trust Platform

The Snyk AI Trust Platform is an AI-native, agentic security platform designed for how modern teams build today. Purpose-built to help you secure your future in the age of AI, it gives agencies the tools to move quickly without compromising trust.

• Snyk Assist – A conversational AI assistant that helps developers resolve security issues in real time—right inside their favorite tools

• Snyk Agent Fix – Automated remediation for code, containers, and cloud—powered by high-fidelity scanning and policy awareness

• Snyk Studio – Innovation hubs for research and integration, including secure AI agent frameworks

Snyk recently announced exciting advancements that enable shifting security even further left, securing at inception. 

The availability of the new Snyk Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server allows AI agents to securely invoke Snyk’s full suite of scanning engines — including static analysis, open source dependency analysis, and newly available support for Snyk Container and Snyk Infrastructure as Code (IaC) directly within agentic workflows. This means as engineers adopt the latest AI-driven coding technologies, Snyk can keep the outputs secure. 

Agencies must gain visibility into the AI components they use in order to meet mandates. Snyk not only provides an AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) to help, it has expanded to include visibility into MCP components, delivering the first governance tool purpose-built for the AI-native supply chain. 

Gaining visibility into the catalog of AI models and MCP components used is just the beginning. Snyk has also introduced a proactive approach to agentic security with new Toxic Flow Analysis (TFA). This experimental scanner is designed for detecting complex, AI-specific, multi-step vulnerabilities unique to agentic environments, such as indirect prompt injection, tool poisoning, and runtime exfiltration paths

Whether you’re modernizing legacy systems, launching new GenAI services, or strengthening cross-agency pipelines, Snyk helps federal teams move fast, stay secure, and build trust into every line of code. Ready to learn about the five pillars of AI readiness? Explore the AI Readiness Framework.