March 2018 Summaries

Comic Relief's developers used Snyk to automate security and boost productivity as part of their Digital Transformation, helping them stay secure while using open source libraries and increasing agility. With Snyk, they freed up dev team resources, allowing junior developers to proactively remediate vulnerable libraries, and enabled the team to focus on developing code with automation providing alerts on new vulnerabilities. The integration allowed Comic Relief to balance security with being agile and using open source libraries, a significant challenge that was overcome by leveraging Snyk's features such as automatic vulnerability checks and notifications via email and slack channels. As a result, the dev team can now divert head count from manual security work to productive feature development, achieving a streamlined process for triaging and remediating vulnerabilities.

Snyk has announced a $7M series A funding round, which highlights the importance of having developers own security and the need to secure open source code. The company has made significant progress in just under 2.5 years, with over 120,000 developers using its platform, 3.3M downloads of its CLI, and protecting over 100,000 repositories on popular source code management platforms. Snyk's growth is attributed to improvements in its product, which now supports multiple languages and platforms, as well as enterprise features such as reporting and governance. The company plans to use the funding to further expand its platform support, develop new features, and improve its customer success tooling. The founders express gratitude to their investors, team members, and users for their support, and look forward to continuing to help developers embrace security through its DevSecOps approach.

Introducing groups – a new way to manage your teams in Snyk Snyk has launched a new feature that allows customers on Pro and Enterprise Plan to split their organization into teams, each managing different projects within a hierarchical structure of "groups". This adds an additional layer of hierarchy to the existing organization model. The main organization becomes a group, with multiple organizations nested within it. Customers can also create personal groups for monitoring individual projects or as a sandbox. A new organization switcher design has been implemented, allowing easier navigation between group and personal organizations. Group overview areas display reports across all organizations in the group, while grouped reports show vulnerability status of all organizations combined. Quick filter functionality has also been added to save frequently used filters. Further improvements are planned for groups, including additional settings and hierarchy enhancements.