The TL;DR
Snyk helps developers make sure that the code they’re writing is secure and free of vulnerabilities.
- A code vulnerability is when code has some sort of weakness that a hacker could potentially exploit
- Snyk helps developers find and fix these code vulnerabilities
- You can use Snyk for your app code, your containers, your infrastructure code, and your open source libraries
- Snyk has a curiously large number of ways to use it, from API to CLI to CI
Though it’s a private company, Snyk is big – they were last valued at upwards of $7B. But before we can explain what Snyk really does, we need to understand what a vulnerability actually is, and why one might want to avoid it.