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 most helpful feature of Aqua Security is Drift Prevention, which is a feature that allows images to be immutable. In addition, one of the main reasons we went with Aqua Security is because it provides strong protection when it comes to runtime security."
"The most valuable feature of Aqua Security is the scanner."
"We use Aqua Security for the container security features."
"The CSPM product is great at securing our cloud accounts and I really like the runtime protection for containers and functions too."
"From what I understand, the initial setup is simple."
"The solution was very user-friendly."
"Aqua Security helps us to check the vulnerability of image assurance and check for malware."
"Aqua Security allowed us to gain visibility into the vulnerabilities that were present in the container images, that were being rolled out, the amount of risk that we were introducing to the platform, and provided us a look into the container environment by introducing access control mechanisms. In addition, when it came to runtime-level policies, we could restrict container access to resources in our environment, such as network-level or other application-level access."
"The CLI feature is quite useful because it gives us a lot of flexibility in what we want to do. If you use the UI, all the information is there and you can see what Snyk is showing you, but there is nothing else that you can change. However, when you use the CLI, then you can use commands and can get the output or response back from Snyk. You can also take advantage of that output in a different way. For the same reason, we have been using the CLI for the hard gate in the pipeline: Obtain a particular CDSS score for vulnerability. Based on that information, we can then decide if we want to block or allow the build. We have more flexibility if we use the CLI."
"Snyk has given us really good results because it is fully automated. We don't have to scan projects every time to find vulnerabilities, as it already stores the dependencies that we are using. It monitors 24/7 to find out if there are any issues that have been reported out on the Internet."
"It has a nice dashboard where I can see all the vulnerabilities and risks that they provided. I can also see the category of any risk, such as medium, high, and low. They provide the input priority-wise. The team can target the highest one first, and then they can go to medium and low ones."
"The dependency checks of the libraries are very valuable, but the licensing part is also very important because, with open source components, licensing can be all over the place. Our project is not an open source project, but we do use quite a lot of open source components and we want to make sure that we don't have surprises in there."
"The solution has great features and is quite stable."
"Static code analysis is one of the best features of the solution."
"It is easy for developers to use. The documentation is clear as well as the APIs are good and easily readable. It's a good solution overall."
"Snyk is a good and scalable tool."
"In the next release, Aqua Security should add the ability to automatically send reports to customers."
"There's room for improvement, particularly in management capabilities as it may not be comprehensive enough for all customers, and it has been lacking in the realm of cloud security posture management."
"Aqua Security could provide more open documentation so that their learning resources can be more easily accessed and searched through online. Right now, a lot of the documentation is closed and not available to the public."
"The solution could improve user-friendliness."
"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."
"I would like Aqua Security to look into is the development of a web security portal."
"We would like to see an improvement in the overview visibility that this solution offers."
"Aqua Security lacks a lot in reporting."
"Compatibility with other products would be great."
"DAST has shortcomings, and Snyk needs to improve and overcome such shortcomings."
"The documentation sometimes is not relevant. It does not cover the latest updates, scanning, and configurations. The documentation for some things is wrong and does not cover some configuration scannings for the multiple project settings."
"The solution's integration with JFrog Artifactory could be improved."
"It can be improved from the reporting perspective and scanning perspective. They can also improve it on the UI front."
"We've also had technical issues with blocking newly introduced vulnerabilities in PRs and that was creating a lot of extra work for developers in trying to close and reopen the PR to get rid of some areas. We ended up having to disable that feature altogether because it wasn't really working for us and it was actually slowing down developer velocity."
"All such tools should definitely improve the signatures in their database. Snyk is pretty new to the industry. They have a pretty good knowledge base, but Veracode is on top because Veracode has been in this business for a pretty long time. They do have a pretty large database of all the findings, and the way that the correlation engine works is superb. Snyk is also pretty good, but it is not as good as Veracode in terms of maintaining a large space of all the historical data of vulnerabilities."
"I think Snyk should add more of a vulnerability protection feature in the tool since it is an area where it lacks."
Aqua Cloud Security Platform is ranked 6th 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 "A robust and cost-effective solution, excelling in scalability, on-premises support, and responsive technical support, making it well-suited for enterprises navigating stringent regulatory environment". 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, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, Veracode and GitLab. See our Aqua Cloud Security Platform vs. Snyk report.
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