Introducing: Extensive AppSec visibility with Snyk Analytics

Your developer team is growing rapidly, and modern applications are becoming increasingly complex. With the rise of GenAI, both developer productivity and security risks are on the rise; How can your application security stay ahead? Snyk Analytics is our most powerful solution yet for AppSec leaders seeking to gain the visibility and insights needed to proactively address security threats. 

Challenges facing AppSec teams today

Application security is essential for businesses of all sizes. It enables teams to find risks early, prioritize vulnerabilities, and fix the highest priority issues quickly. But today’s AppSec teams face some significant challenges in achieving these goals:

Tracking success

Demonstrating the effectiveness of your AppSec efforts is crucial, but there’s currently no well-established industry standard. In turn, most AppSec programs rely on simple analytics to measure success, like the number of vulnerabilities found and fixed. But since you can’t fix an entire sea of vulnerabilities, did you prioritize the most critical issues and address them quickly enough? Are you monitoring your entire codebase? Are all developers using your AppSec tools and when in the development process are they being used? 

Scaling

As your company and revenues grow, it's important to scale and future-proof your AppSec efforts. Proactively guiding developers toward writing secure code is more effective than running from one vulnerability to the next. When you understand what works, what doesn't, and where the problems are coming from, you can stop reacting to security issues and start preventing them. 

Addressing AI risk

As AI-generated code drives up both developer output and the risk of vulnerabilities, it’s more critical than ever to sharpen tools and processes to meet the new complexities. How can you protect your developers from the pitfalls of using AI assistants to write code? As our work shifts even further left, we need to know if developers are adopting AppSec solutions since the only useful security tool, is one that is actually being used.

Get ahead of vulnerabilities with a full picture of AppSec efforts

This is where the visibility and insight of analytics come in––not just for the issues you’re resolving but for developer and application coverage questions as well. 

Based on our customers’ needs, success, and feedback, Snyk has united, strengthened, and amplified our foundational analytics and reporting offering under one umbrella: Snyk Analytics. Snyk Analytics meets the full range of management challenges AppSec teams face, especially at the enterprise level, as they work to improve security health. It includes:

• Our proven analytics and reporting tools

• New reports, like the Developer CLI and IDE usage report, the SLA Management report, and our Featured-Zero Days report

• An integration with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud

Snyk Analytics offers an unmatched comprehensive suite of reporting functionality, developer analytics, and extensibility.

Answer the critical questions

The Snyk Analytics dashboards are purpose-built to focus on the three most important aspects of AppSec program health: 

Issue Analytics

Focus on the metrics available for critical and high-severity issues. Quickly understand overall exposure and progress in resolving or preventing that risk through a top-level metric, its associated trendlines, and a more granular view as needed.

Application Analytics

Get insight into issues, code coverage, and asset-related trends. Integrated with application and business context, these reports let teams assess program success more accurately, refine strategies, and provide executive stakeholders with a clear understanding of overall ROI.

Developer Analytics

Gauge adoption of Snyk's security testing across development through the IDE plugins and using the CLI locally. Use this insight to see where shift-left behavior is strong, and use this as a model for other teams not adopting security testing.

Extensibility to other platforms

AppSec leaders may require more customization based on their individual reporting needs. Snyk Analytics lets you easily export your security data out of Snyk through a few extensibility options, including easy CSV download, our platform APIs, and the Snowflake Data Share.

Because Snyk datasets come preconfigured for consumption by other security platforms, you can easily access Snyk data using data analytics and BI tools like Snowflake. The custom dashboard shows you the big picture, allowing you to make more holistic and strategic decisions. 

Gain comprehensive insight across four key dimensions 

Through Snyk Analytics, AppSec leaders gain unparalleled visibility across four strategic security pillars, helping track critical metrics for a holistic picture of program health:

• Coverage: How much of your code is being monitored? Issue & Application Analytics tracks metrics like code coverage and the number of projects monitored over time for each product.

• Exposure: How vulnerable is your organization to an attack or audit? Monitor and report on metrics like the number of open critical and high issues, outstanding baselines, zero-day vulnerability exposure, and your most prevalent and problematic vulnerabilities.

• Management: How effectively are developers remediating issues promptly or within your set targets? This dimension includes reporting on issues resolved and mean time to resolve (MTTR).

• Prevention: How well are you reducing your incremental risk exposure? Track preventable issues and developer shift-left behavior through reports focused on IDE and CLI.

These four pillars work together to ensure an effective AppSec program.

How will you use Snyk Analytics?

At Snyk, we design our products around customer needs and successes, so we’re always curious about how our customers are using our products to uplevel their security posture. Drop us a line to tell us how you’re using our analytics and reporting, how they’re helping you improve your AppSec efforts, and what you plan to implement next. We’d love to hear from you!

Snyk Analytics was released in our Snyk Launch on October 8th, 2024.