Topic: snyk
Snyk closes $196.5 million funding round
Developer security company Snyk today announced a $196.5 million Series G investment. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority with participation from new investors Evolution Equity Partners, G Squared, and Irving Investors as well as existing investors boldstart ventures, Sands Capital, and Tiger Global. According to the company, this comes after a year of … continue reading
Snyk announces updates to its Developer Security Platform
Snyk announced many innovations that extend the scope of the company’s Developer Security Platform during its SnykLaunch Fall 2022 event. This includes the general availability of Snyk Cloud, which offers tools to help fix software vulnerabilities such as a vulnerability scanner and a patch management system that was launched in July 2022 with limited availability. … continue reading
Snyk introduces new cloud security solution
The developer security company, Snyk, today announced the launch of its comprehensive cloud security solution, Snyk Cloud. This extends the company’s existing developer security platform, enabling more organizations to embrace DevSecOps and facilitate collaboration between developers, operations, security, and compliance teams. According to Snyk, this release allows global developers to take full ownership of their … continue reading
Report: Indirect dependencies are increasingly causing trouble for organizations
Dependencies in open-source packages are ripe with the potential to contain vulnerabilities. It’s one thing to try to manage that when you know what those dependencies are, but what about the ones that you’re less aware of? Only 18% of respondents to a joint survey conducted by Snyk and the Linux Foundation said they are … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Snyk acquires Fugue; JetBrains adds advanced project management to YouTrack; Akamai to acquire Linode
Today, the developer security company Snyk announced its acquisition of Fugue, a cloud security and compliance company. With this, Snyk makes its entrance into the cloud security market, a segment of the cybersecurity industry that is predicted to be worth $77.5 billion by 2026 according to MarketsandMarkets. This combination brings Fugue’s capabilities to the Snyk … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Updates announced for Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer; JFrog Xray updates; Sysdig and Snyk announce partnership
Recently, Amazon announced new features being added to Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, a developer tool that works to detect security vulnerabilities in code and provides intelligent recommendations to improve code quality. These updates include: A new Detector Library that describes the detectors that CodeGuru Reviewer uses when looking for possible defects and includes code samples for … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Skillsoft to acquire Codecademy; JetBrains introduces kotlinx.coroutines 1.6.0; Snyk and Dynatrace announce workshop
Skillsoft, a corporate digital learning organization, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the online learning platform for technical skills, Codecademy. The acquisition is estimated at $525 million in cash and stock. The acquisition provides many benefits, including: Expands immersive learning platform with new ways of learning Creates substantial cross-selling and upselling opportunities by adding … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Perforce completes acquisition of BlazeMeter; OctoML raises $85 million in Series C funding; Snyk to acquire CloudSkiff
Perforce Software announced the completion of its acquisition of the continuous testing platform, BlazeMeter from Broadcom. This acquisition is Perforce’s twelfth one to date. This acquisition will grow and strengthen Perforce’s application quality portfolio, allowing users to achieve AI-driven, complete shift-left testing quickly and easily. With BlazeMeter, Perforce users gain access to unified functionality like … continue reading
Snyk announces new product innovations and integrations to further developer-led security
Today the developer security company Snyk introduced new product innovations, DigitalOcean and HashiCorp partnerships, and launched Snyk Learn as part of SnykCon 2021. Snyk Code, which offers a dev-first approach to static application security testing tooling just received support for C#, Ruby, PHP and Go added to Java, Javascript, and Python. Also, Snyk Open Source … continue reading
Report: Developers are moving away from Java 8 to Java 11
Previous reports of the Java community found that developers were still mainly using Java 8 and didn’t adopt newer versions, but according to Snyk’s JVM Ecosystem Report 2021, that is starting to change. This year, 61.5% of respondents are using Java 11 somewhere in production, and almost 12% are using the latest release, which was … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Gremlin’s Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Program, FusionAuth Advanced MFA, and InstallAware X13 for Ethereum
Gremlin’s new Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Program was designed to help software teams get started with chaos engineering. “No matter your title and background, Gremlin makes it easy for anybody interested in reliability to become a Chaos Engineering expert,” Tammy Butow, a principal SRE at Gremlin, wrote in a blog post. “This Gremlin Certificate Program … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Kendo UI’s latest release, TypeScript 4.3 RC, and Snyk acquires FossID
Progress announced the new release of Kendo UI R2 2021, which introduces Kendo UI for Angular, jQuery and Vue as well as KendoReact. Kendo UI for Angular delivers new components such as BottomNavigation, MultiSelectTree, Skeleton and Circular Gauge to enhance users’ interaction with the app, data visualization and performance. KendoReact aims to empower developers to … continue reading
