Frontier models can now chain low-severity findings into working zero-day exploits, which means the vulnerabilities your team safely deprioritized six months ago are no longer safe to ignore. Risk Score and Reachability tell you where to start, and Snyk's AI-powered remediation helps you burn down the whole backlog.
You used to be able to safely accept low-severity findings as risk and move on. That calculus no longer holds. AI threat actors are chaining findings you'd normally ignore into novel attack paths — and AI-generated code is adding to the backlog faster than teams can work through it.
AI coding tools now generate 65–70% of production code — and nearly half of it introduces exploitable vulnerabilities. Every AI-written PR adds to the queue. NIST reported a 33% increase in CVE submissions in Q1 2026 alone.
Issues your team classified as acceptable risk six months ago are now attack vectors for AI threat actors. The assumption that "only 5% of vulnerabilities matter" is what attackers are counting on.
Snyk currently detects 6 vulnerabilities for every 1 remediated industry-wide. When AI is generating risk faster than humans can review it, manual triage isn't a strategy — it's a delay.
While the volume of new vulnerabilities grows exponentially, the resources to fix them do not. This forces a reliance on outdated prioritization models that create more noise than clarity, leaving organizations exposed to the risks that truly matter.
6:1
Vulnerabilities detected for every one remediated — the gap is widening
60 days
Average time to remediate critical vulnerabilities
~94%
Improvement in SCA fix rates when pairing Snyk intelligence with frontier models
Risk-based prioritization is where you start — not where you stop. Snyk's Risk Score and Reachability tell you which vulnerabilities to tackle first. Snyk's AI-powered remediation engine — backed by 35,000+ real-world vulnerability examples and an agentic retry loop — means your team doesn't have to stop at the top of the list. You can burn down the whole backlog.
The foundation for risk-based prioritization is knowing what assets you need to protect. Snyk automatically maps your complete application landscape — including code repositories, container images, third-party dependencies, and ownership — to build a comprehensive asset inventory.
Combine application, development, and business context with deep technical details about vulnerabilities linked to each asset, enabling teams to make smarter, more informed prioritization decisions.
Snyk’s Risk Score ingests a wide range of factors — exploit reachability, exploit maturity, business impact, EPSS, CVSS, transitive depth, and social trends — to rank vulnerabilities based on real-world risk.
Risk scoring is embedded across various interfaces, ensuring both developers and security teams can leverage it to prioritize issues directly within their workflows.
Track progress, coverage gaps, and risk trends via dashboards and reporting, giving stakeholders visibility into outcomes and opportunities for improvement.
Snyk's risk-based prioritization is built upon our market-leading developer security platform, which has already helped the world's leading companies save time and reduce risk.
70%
Increase in automated remediation by customers using the Snyk platform
100K+
Hours in developer efficiency gains from Fortune 500 customers with Snyk
$5.08M
Average savings Snyk customers realized in the past year based on risk avoidance and dev efficiency gains