Cloud native application security company Snyk, which software-driven businesses to develop fast and stay secure, is launching officially in South Africa.
Snyk provides the platform to continually deliver secure development products that integrate the company’s security policies and posture, and align with the best in security practices.
How apps are fundamentally created has evolved and now often involves assembling from a variety of internal and external sources, including open source software. Instead of “throwing their code over the wall,” developers retain ownership of their work while collaborating closely with operations, in the process of DevOps. This arrangement delivers development products at pace and scale in a world where software updates have accelerated from a few annually to several in a day.
But this traditional could compound already existing security issues, with security becoming an afterthought applied near the end of the development cycle. This is unrealistic, leading to two outcomes: development either grinds to a halt as it tries to meet security requirements, or the code is released without the necessary security baked in.
DevSecOps, addresses this specific issue, but there are still challenges.
Snyk is a platform for developers. It looks like a development tool and engages developers on their level. Snyk is also a security expert hub, both collaborating with the security world and conducting proprietary research in numerous guises. These discoveries are fed into the Snyk platform for developers to take immediate control of security problems in code and address them, even if they aren’t well-versed in security themselves.
Since Snyk integrates across the systems development lifecycle, security teams gain full visibility, auditing, and reporting capabilities. But it goes beyond that. Snyk involves the entire organisation, fostering a collaborative environment that connects development, security, and business value into one continuum.
“Snyk is fortunate that, over the last year, we’ve seen enterprises of all sizes and all across the globe select us as their cloud native application security solution for their digital transformation initiatives,” says Ethan Schechter, vice-president: sales for the EMEA region at Snyx. “As 2021 begins our next chapter of growth in EMEA, we’re excited to launch in South Africa. Home to thousands of developers, South Africa is an EMEA hub for innovation and we look forward to bringing our differentiated approach to this market to ultimately allow South African developers to continue to develop fast, while also staying secure.”
Snyk enables the following:
* Enable DevSecOps into a full cultural shift;
* Secure cloud native infrastructure at scale;
* Maintain the software bill of materials (both what they personally code and what they acquire/assemble from elsewhere);
* Manage compliance and licensing; and
* Create more secure pathways for containerisation.