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Dependabot vs Snyk: What are the differences?
What is Dependabot? Automated dependency updates for Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Elixir, Java, PHP and Rust. Dependabot helps you keep your dependencies up to date. Every day, it checks your dependency files for outdated requirements and opens individual PRs for any it finds. You review, merge, and get to work on the latest, most secure releases.
What is Snyk? Fix vulnerabilities in Node & npm dependencies with a click. Fix vulnerabilities in Node & npm dependencies with a click.
Dependabot and Snyk belong to "Dependency Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
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.
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.
Pros of Dependabot
- Free for github projects1
Pros of Snyk
- Github Integration9
- Finds lots of real vulnerabilities4
- Free for open source projects4
- Easy to deployed1
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Cons of Dependabot
Cons of Snyk
- Does not integrated with SonarQube1
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