One of the biggest challenges in cloud-native environments today is balancing rapid development cycles with robust security practices. Sysdig and Snyk have joined forces in an exciting partnership designed to deliver end-to-end security—from code development through container runtime. This integrated approach drastically reduces vulnerability alert noise by up to 95%, accelerates remediation, and enhances runtime protection, allowing developers to innovate quickly without compromising on security.
Addressing vulnerability overload
While cloud-native development enables rapid innovation, it often leads to a massive backlog of security vulnerabilities. Developers find themselves overwhelmed by extensive lists of vulnerabilities, unsure about their actual risk levels or where to focus remediation efforts. Time spent analyzing this overwhelming noise detracts from valuable development activities, causing frustration, delays, and potential security risks. Similarly, security and operations teams often struggle with alert fatigue, spending significant resources managing vulnerabilities that pose minimal real-world risk.
The Sysdig 2022 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report highlights the severity of this issue: 75% of containers in production environments have high or critical vulnerabilities that are patchable yet remain unaddressed for about six months. Such delays create extensive windows of exposure, making organizations vulnerable to potential breaches.
Reducing noise with Runtime Insights
Snyk is an industry leader in developer-focused security, providing essential feedback throughout the container lifecycle. Snyk Container helps developers proactively select secure base images, addressing security concerns at the earliest stages. However, modern containerized applications—often built using numerous open-source and third-party packages—inevitably introduce a substantial number of vulnerabilities. Many of these vulnerabilities stem from unused packages, unnecessarily increasing the noise developers must manage.
Sysdig Secure addresses this challenge head-on. As a leader in cloud-native security, Sysdig pioneered Falco, the open-source standard for real-time threat detection across Kubernetes, containers, and cloud environments. By leveraging runtime insights from Sysdig, the joint solution significantly reduces vulnerability noise by focusing only on packages actively used in running containers. This precise approach ensures developers prioritize vulnerabilities that pose genuine threats, eliminating confusion and significantly boosting productivity.
Optimized remediation through integrated prioritization
Traditional vulnerability prioritization methods often fall short because they lack runtime context, leaving developers inundated with irrelevant or low-risk alerts. This inefficiency not only slows down remediation but also risks leaving critical vulnerabilities unaddressed.
By integrating Sysdig’s runtime insights with Snyk’s vulnerability scanning capabilities, teams achieve precise vulnerability prioritization. Developers can immediately identify critical vulnerabilities impacting active packages in production, enabling them to focus remediation efforts effectively and swiftly. This clarity means developers spend less time guessing and more time fixing real security threats.
Bridging the DevSecOps gap
The partnership between Sysdig and Snyk is designed to foster a true DevSecOps culture by enhancing collaboration between development, security, and operations teams. Providing runtime visibility from production directly back to developers significantly reduces vulnerability noise, allowing faster identification and resolution of critical issues. Security and operations teams benefit from reduced alert fatigue and can focus more resources on identifying genuine threats and enhancing overall security posture.
Comprehensive security from development to runtime
The Sysdig and Snyk partnership uniquely enables organizations to:
- Secure Containers End-to-End: Integrate robust security practices throughout the container and Kubernetes lifecycle—from building secure base images to vulnerability management, threat detection, and real-time response.
- Build Securely from the Outset: Identify and eliminate unnecessary packages and vulnerabilities at the development stage based on real-world production requirements.
- Runtime Protection: Implement proactive runtime threat detection and response, ensuring applications remain secure even against zero-day exploits or newly identified vulnerabilities.
- Effective Prioritization: Provide developers and operations teams with a clear, actionable view of vulnerabilities by combining runtime context with vulnerability assessments, making security management efficient and effective.
By bridging development, security, and operational silos, Sysdig and Snyk empower teams to improve security and productivity simultaneously. The partnership creates optimal conditions for innovation, growth, cost reduction, and customer satisfaction.
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