Leader in secure AI software development, Snyk, recently launched an AI platform built to secure and govern software development.
The Snyk AI Trust Platform is an AI-native, agentic platform that enables organizations to accelerate AI-driven innovation while mitigating business risk.
Snyk Labs and Snyk Studio also announced as company brings innovation to AI security
Furthermore, the announcement of the new platform includes two platform-supporting, curated AI Trust environments: Snyk Labs and Snyk Studio. Snyk Labs is an innovation hub for researching, experimenting with, and incubating the future of AI security.
Snyk Studio, meanwhile, is where technology partners can collaborate with Snyk experts to build secure AI-native applications for mutual customers.
“Snyk was founded with a mission to disrupt the legacy AppSec industry with what was previously an unconventional concept– putting security in the hands of developers. This is now considered an industry best practice,” said Peter McKay, the CEO of Snyk. “With today’s launch, we’re disrupting the status quo again and charting the course for Snyk’s next decade of innovation. AI should be welcomed, not feared, but it’s up to us to help our customers navigate this new world order– securely.”
The AI Trust Platform, Snyk Labs, and Snyk Studio are designed to address challenges faced by customers from threat actors that have begun to use AI for deploying cyberattacks, including prompt injections and data poisoning, that dismantle code to purposely infect product lines.
“I’m confident that the Snyk AI Trust Platform will be a game changer for global organizations looking to further invest in AI-driven development,” said Danny Allan, Snyk’s chief technology officer. “Autopilot didn’t replace the need for actual pilots, and in that same vein, we envision a world where AI augments developers, but never fully replaces them. No one is better positioned than Snyk to help with the near-term strategic and practical adoption of AI by building in security from the outset.”
According to Snyk, the AI Trust Platform includes multiple industry-first innovations, including:
- Snyk Assist: An AI-powered chat-based experience with high context, just-in-time insights into Snyk features, next-step recommendations, and security intelligence.
- Snyk Agent: A suite of AI-powered security agents that deliver automated actions and fixes across the development lifecycle, generated by Snyk’s industry-leading array of testing engines.
- Snyk Guard: An AI governance solution to deploy guardrails for automatically assessing, enforcing, and adapting security polices in real-time based on evolving risk factors.
- Snyk AI Readiness Framework: A framework for building and maturing your organization’s strategy for secure AI-native software development.
- Snyk Studio: A tool that allows AI-native partners to integrate Snyk’s capabilities into their coding assistant tools through Snyk’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
“As a long-term customer, we’ve been able to reap the benefits of DevSecOps as a result of deploying Snyk solutions,” said Adrian Guevara, CISO at TELUS, Digital Solutions, a division of TELUS Digital. “As our current AI age evolves the role of developers, there’s no strategic partner we trust more than Snyk to help us keep pace. The Snyk AI Trust Platform is the most comprehensive I’ve seen to date, allowing CISOs like myself to have confidence and peace of mind as their organizations shift to more AI-driven development.”
Technical demos, early insights, and AI security research
The recently announced Snyk Labs will act as a go-to resource for technical demos, thought leadership, and early insights into emerging threats and standards in the GenAI security landscape.
The Labs’ research will initially center on AI Security Posture Management (AI SPM), including an AI Bill of Materials (AI BoM) analysis for visibility into where and how models are embedded as software. It will also focus on how Snyk is building an industry-first GenAI model risk registry to measure novel risks, such as model jailbreaking.
Snyk Studio, meanwhile, will focus on partnering with technology companies that currently have AI solutions in their initial phase. This is to help mutual customers deploy AI securely.
Developers and technology providers will be able to collaborate within the Snyk Studio with Snyk security experts to embed critical security context and controls into their AI-generated code and AI-powered workflows.
Snyk’s newly developed MCP server will provide a standardized and efficient avenue for AI models within technology partners’ solutions to understand and incorporate security context from Snyk.
“Qodo’s mission is to empower developers to build higher quality code with greater efficiency, and now our Snyk Studio participation further advances this important goal,” said Itamar Friedman, CEO of Snyk user Qodo. “By leveraging Snyk security context via MCP, we’re able to deliver a stronger AI coding experience, ensuring speed and innovation gains are paired with the most robust security standards.”
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