Product Solutions Resources Partners Pricing Support Talk to an expert Get free trial Login GitLab vs Snyk Decision Kit Summary Snyk offers security scanning of open source components, container scanning, and license compliance. GitLab Ultimate offers not only these capabilities but also Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing. GitLab Ultimate automatically includes broad security scanning with every code commit including Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing, along with dependency scanning, container scanning, and license management. Comparison to GitLab Although Snyk is a good fit for customers who need to identify vulnerabile packages in open source components, it does not provide a broad range of scanning types. Customers are likely to choose GitLab if they want an all-in-one product that can do SAST, DAST, and Fuzzing in addition to SCA. They are also likely to choose GitLab if they value having their scanning tightly integrated with the development workflow. Strengths and Weaknesses GitLab Snyk Strengths • Provides a full range of code scanning types (SAST, DAST, etc) within a single solution • Integrated security as part of DevOps workflow for all developers • Security leadership by being a CVE Numbering Authority • Extremely easy to use, provides a clean UX and design • Strong capabilities to customize, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities • Security leadership through conferences and acquisition of DevSecCon Weaknesses • Requires users to use GitLab for CI if they are not doing so already • Does not provide a full suite of code scanning to adequately detect all vulnerabilities - no SAST or DAST • The entire workflow and UI is separate from the developer’s typical day-to-day work High-level Comparison of Scanning Capabilities GitLab Snyk SAST ✅ DAST ✅ Vulnerability scanning ✅ ✅ License compliance ✅ ✅ Fuzzing ✅ Detailed Comparison of SCA Features GitLab Snyk Dependency scanning ✅ ✅ Package scanning ✅ ✅ License compliance ✅ ✅ Support for scanning containerized applications ✅ ✅ Ability to scan running containers in production roadmap Basic prioritization (low, med, high, etc) ✅ ✅ Advanced prioritization (code reachability and ability to weaponize) ✅ Custom prioritization rules ✅ Basic auto-suggested fixes (upgrade package) ✅ ✅ Advanced fixes (patch vulnerability w/o upgrade) ✅ Scan when an MR is opened or pipeline is run ✅ ✅ Scan on a schedule ✅ Gating - prevent deployment to enforce license compliance or vulnerability standards ✅ ✅ Alerts and notifications (Slack, Jira, etc) roadmap ✅ Basic report dashboard (count of H, M, L) ✅ ✅ Extensive report dashboard (track vulnerabilities and exposure over time) ✅ On demand ability to run scans from a cli ✅ Feature Comparison FEATURES Static Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab allows easily running Static Application Security Testing (SAST) in CI/CD pipelines; checking for vulnerable source code or well known security bugs in the libraries that are included by the application. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. This feature is available as part of Auto DevOps to provide security-by-default. Learn more about Static Application Security Testing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE “With Gitlab 14.5 we’re introducing security scanning for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) configuration files.” Learn more about IaC security scanning Secret Detection SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab allows you to perform Secret Detection in CI/CD pipelines; checking for unintentionally committed secrets and credentials. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. This feature is available as part of Auto DevOps to provide security-by-default. Learn more about Secret Detection Dependency Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Protect your application from vulnerabilities that affect dynamic dependencies by automatically detecting well-known security bugs in your included libraries. Learn more about Dependency Scanning Dynamic Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Ensure you are not exposed to web application vulnerabilities like broken authentication, cross-site scripting, or SQL injection by dynamically investigating your running test applications in CI/CD pipelines. Learn more about application security for containers Interactive Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE IAST combines elements of static and dynamic application security testing methods to improve the overall quality of the results. IAST typically uses an agent to instrument the application to monitor library calls and more. GitLab does not yet offer this feature. Cloud Native Network Firewall SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Prevent attackers from moving through your environment by restricting container network communications to only allow valid traffic flows between application components. Learn more about Container Network Security Container Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Run a security scan to ensure the Docker images for your application do not have any known vulnerabilities in the environment where your code is shipped. Learn more about container scanning License Compliance SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Check that licenses of your dependencies are compatible with your application, and approve or deny them. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. Learn more about License Compliance On-demand DAST SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Identify vulnerabilities in your running application, independent of code changes or merge requests. Learn more about On-demand DAST Site and Scanner profiles for On-demand DAST scans SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Reuse configuration profiles quickly with on-demand DAST scans, instead of reconfiguring scans every time you need to run one. Mix different scan profiles with site profiles to quickly conduct scans that cover different areas or depths of your application and API. Learn more about application security for containers DAST Configuration UI SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Enabling DAST is now as simple as three clicks. This guided configuration experience makes it easier for non-CI experts to get started with GitLab DAST. The tool helps a user create a merge request to enable DAST scanning while leveraging best configuration practices like using the GitLab-managed DAST.gitlab-ci.yml template. Learn more about the DAST Configuration UI Scheduling On-demand DAST scans SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Set on-demand DAST scans to run on ad hoc or recurring schedules. Learn more about scheduling on-demand scans Twitter Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Why GitLab? Product Solutions Services DevOps tools Is it any good? Releases Pricing Get started Resources All resources All-Remote Blog Newsletter Events Webcasts Topics Training Docs Developer Portal Install Community Customers Contribute Community Programs Direction Technology Partners Channel Partners Open Source Partners GitLab for Open Source GitLab for Education GitLab for Startups Shop Community Forum Support Get help Contact Sales Contact Support Support options Status Customers Portal Company About What is GitLab? 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