CAST Highlight vs. Snyk

I think CAST is a great tool to give insight into your applications. The tool can be met with resistance from team members as the tool is going to expose defects that should be addressed. Out of the box, it may need some tailoring to focus on certain areas so that you are not overwhelmed with defects the first time you scan your code. But ultimately, you will want to eliminate all defects in the code and have all violations turned on.

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1) SAST Code Scan 2) Infra Code Scan 3) Docker Image Scan 4) SAS solution and provides good integration with various SCMS

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• Identifies common coding vulnerabilities.
• Compares code to industry best practices.
• Assesses the code for data privacy compliance.

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• Integration in CI/CD pipeline.
• Periodic reporting is also an option.
• Clear separation of issues/categories.
• Insightful reasoning for issue and suggested solutions.

• Code scans could be faster. A large application may need to be broken down into smaller sub-applications in order to facilitate faster code scans.
• We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to best structure our code base in the application for ultimate performance.

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• Setting up is complex and when not do no properly provides too many false positives.
• We use another tool in parallel because it does not cover all of our languages especially for older code that is in mixed languages.
• Integrating it with bitbucket was not straight forward.

Incentivized

Developer-Centric Design - Snyk integrates directly into IDEs (like VS Code and IntelliJ), CI/CD pipelines, GitHub/GitLab, and container registries. Clear, Actionable Vulnerability report issues are categorized by severity.


Reports include fix recommendations, pull request suggestions, and links to remediation advice.

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Tech support and pro services are top-notch.

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These other tools only do a part of what CAST does. CAST gives a comprehensive view into the code looking at all aspects, code quality, security, maintainability, vulnerability, privacy, reuse, etc. These other tools only focus on one or two dimensions.

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Developer-Centric Design


Snyk integrates seamlessly into the dev workflow (IDEs, Git, CI/CD).


Tools like Veracode/Fortify are security team-centric, with less developer engagement.


Unlike WhiteSource or Sonatype, Snyk has a faster learning curve and actionable fixes.

Incentivized

• I believe once we had the tool working for our code base, we immediately saw positive ROI.
• We spent some time getting to where our code code be scanned efficiently but some of that was trying to do things ourselves instead of fully utilizing Cast Professional Services. I highly recommend to do an engagement with CAST to have them help setup the tool in your environment or to run it in the cloud for you.

Incentivized

• The API is extensive enough for many integration options.
• API keys are rotated on a non-preferred time schedule. There's no way to configure this.
• We had a great experience with the support team and success managers while setting up the product and onboarding projects into the tool

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