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Snyk vs WhiteSource: What are the differences?

What is Snyk? Fix vulnerabilities in Node & npm dependencies with a click. Fix vulnerabilities in Node & npm dependencies with a click.

What is WhiteSource? *Continuously monitoring open source libraries for vulnerabilities *. It automatically identifies all the open source components and dependencies in your build by constant and automatic cross-referencing of your open source components.

Snyk and WhiteSource belong to "Dependency Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

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Bryan Dady
SRE Manager at Subsplash · | 5 upvotes · 357.1K views

I'm beginning to research the right way to better integrate how we achieve SCA / shift-left / SecureDevOps / secure software supply chain. If you use or have evaluated WhiteSource, Snyk, Sonatype Nexus, SonarQube or similar, I would very much appreciate your perspective on strengths and weaknesses and how you selected your ultimate solution. I want to integrate with GitLab CI.

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Moises Figueroa
DevOps Engineer at Ingenium Code · | 2 upvotes · 8.2K views
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I'd recommend Snyk since it provides an IDE extension for Developers, SAST, auto PR security fixes, container, IaC and includes open source scanning as well. I like their scoring method as well for better prioritization. I was able to remove most of the containers and cli tools I had in my pipelines since Snyk covers secrets, vulns, security and some code cleaning. SAST has false positives but the scoring helps. Also had to spend time putting some training docs but their engineers helped out with content.

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Pros of Snyk
Pros of WhiteSource
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    Github Integration
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    Finds lots of real vulnerabilities
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    Free for open source projects
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    Easy to deployed
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    Cons of Snyk
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      Does not integrated with SonarQube
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      What is Snyk?

      Automatically find & fix vulnerabilities in your code, containers, Kubernetes, and Terraform

      What is WhiteSource?

      The leading solution for agile open source security and license compliance management, WhiteSource integrates with the DevOps pipeline to detect vulnerable open source libraries in real-time.

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