We performed a comparison between Aqua Security Platform and Snyk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Aqua Security Platform is highly appreciated for its ability to secure container images, identify vulnerabilities, and detect malware. Snyk is acclaimed for being developer-friendly, offering automatic pull request creation and software composition analysis. Aqua Security Platform could improve by automating reporting and log forwarding. Users also complain that it is too resource-heavy. Snyk could focus on improving compatibility and reporting capabilities. Reviewers said that Snyk could automate remediation and simplify functions.
Service and Support: Aqua Security Platform's customer service is generally considered prompt and supportive, but some users reported that they had to fix some issues themselves. Some users said Snyk's customer service should improve the way it organizes and prioritizes support tickets.
Ease of Deployment: Users reported varying levels of difficulty with Aqua's setup process, with some saying the solution required specialized knowledge. Snyk's setup was generally considered straightforward, with some variations depending on specific circumstances.
Pricing: Aqua Security Platform is moderately priced. Snyk is considered expensive, particularly for smaller companies. However, some users said the pricing was manageable for larger enterprises.
ROI: Snyk offers a budget-friendly solution that has the potential to offset annual subscription costs by addressing bugs faster. Users offered limited feedback on the ROI for Aqua Security Platform.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Snyk over Aqua Security Platform. Users appreciate Snyk's straightforward setup and developer-friendly approach. Snyk offers valuable features like scanning, automatic pull requests, and software composition analysis.
"The DTA, which stands for Dynamic Threat Analysis, allows me to analyze Docker images in a sandbox environment before deployment, helping me anticipate risks."
"We use Aqua Security for the container security features."
"The solution was very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and manage."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"From what I understand, the initial setup is simple."
"Valuable features include the ability to connect it to our Docker Hub where our images are stored, good integration with Slack, and the connection to the CV, to easily see which CVs are on each image."
"The container security element of this product has been very valuable to our organization."
"The most valuable feature of Snyk is the software composition analysis."
"The most valuable features are their GitLab and JIRA integrations. The GitLab integration lets us pull projects in pretty easily, so that it's pretty minimal for developers to get it set up. Using the JIRA integration, it's also pretty easy to get the information that is generated, as a result of that GitLab integration, back to our teams in a non-intrusive way and in a workflow that we are already using."
"I find SCA to be valuable. It can read your libraries, your license and bring the best way to resolve your problem in the best scenario."
"The most valuable feature of Snyk is the SBOM."
"The most valuable feature is that they add a lot of their own information to the vulnerabilities. They describe vulnerabilities and suggest their own mitigations or version upgrades. The information was the winning factor when we compared Snyk to others. This is what gave it more impact."
"From the software composition analysis perspective, it first makes sure that we understand what is happening from a third-party perspective for the particular product that we use. This is very difficult when you are building software and incorporating dependencies from other libraries, because those dependencies have dependencies and that chain of dependencies can go pretty deep. There could be a vulnerability in something that is seven layers deep, and it would be very difficult to understand that is even affecting us. Therefore, Snyk provides fantastic visibility to know, "Yes, we have a problem. Here is where it ultimately comes from." It may not be with what we're incorporating, but something much deeper than that."
"We're loving some of the Kubernetes integration as well. That's really quite cool. It's still in the early days of our use of it, but it looks really exciting. In the Kubernetes world, it's very good at reporting on the areas around the configuration of your platform, rather than the things that you've pulled in. There's some good advice there that allows you to prioritize whether something is important or just worrying. That's very helpful."
"The most valuable features include enriched information around the vulnerabilities for better triaging, in terms of the vulnerability layer origin and vulnerability tree."
"In the next release, Aqua Security should add the ability to automatically send reports to customers."
"Aqua Security lacks a lot in reporting."
"Since we are working from home, we would like to have the proper training for Aqua."
"We would like to see an improvement in the overview visibility that this solution offers."
"I would like Aqua Security to look into is the development of a web security portal."
"Sometimes I got stressed with the UI."
"It's a bit hard to use the user roles. That was a bit confusing."
"The integrations on CICD could be improved. If Aqua had more plugins or container images to integrate and automate more easily on CICD, it would be better."
"The tool needs improvement in license compliance. I would like to see the integration of better policy management in the product's future release. When it comes to the organization that I work for, there are a lot of business units since we are a group of companies. Each of these companies has its specific requirements and its own appetite for risk. This should be able to reflect in flexible policies. We need to be able to configure policies that can be adjusted later or overridden by the business unit that is using the product."
"DAST has shortcomings, and Snyk needs to improve and overcome such shortcomings."
"Snyk's API and UI features could work better in terms of speed."
"For the areas that they're new in, it's very early stages for them. For example, their expertise is in looking at third-party components and packages, which is their bread-and-butter and what they've been doing for ages, but for newer features such as static analysis I don't think they've got compatibility for all the languages and frameworks yet."
"The solution could improve the reports. They have been working on improving the reports but more work could be done."
"A feature we would like to see is the ability to archive and store historical data, without actually deleting it. It's a problem because it throws my numbers off. When I'm looking at the dashboard's current vulnerabilities, it's not accurate."
"The way Snyk notifies if we have an issue, there are a few options: High vulnerability or medium vulnerability. The problem with that is high vulnerabilities are too broad, because there are too many. If you enable notifications, you get a lot of notifications, When you get many notifications, they become irrelevant because they're not specific. I would prefer to have control over the notifications and somehow decide if I want to get only exploitable vulnerabilities or get a specific score for a vulnerability. Right now, we receive too many high vulnerabilities. If we enable notifications, then we just get a lot of spam message. Therefore, we would like some type of filtering system to be built-in for the system to be more precise."
"There are some new features that we would like to see added, e.g., more visibility into library usage for the code. Something along the lines where it's doing the identification of where vulnerabilities are used, etc. This would cause them to stand out in the market as a much different platform."
Aqua Cloud Security Platform is ranked 7th in Container Security with 16 reviews while Snyk is ranked 5th in Container Security with 41 reviews. Aqua Cloud Security Platform is rated 8.0, while Snyk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Aqua Cloud Security Platform writes "Reliable with good container scanning and a straightforward setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". Aqua Cloud Security Platform is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, SUSE NeuVector and Sysdig Secure, whereas Snyk is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, GitHub Advanced Security, Fortify Static Code Analyzer and GitLab. See our Aqua Cloud Security Platform vs. Snyk report.
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