Platform delivered on Snyk · one tenant, four engines · Snyk Code · Snyk Open Source · Snyk Container · Snyk IaC
the problem
Findings lived where developers never looked
starting point
The organisation had no consistent way to find and manage weaknesses across source code, open-source dependencies, infrastructure definitions, containers and web interfaces. Security findings lived in security-team dashboards that developers never looked at.
the platform — snyk
One Snyk tenant, four scanning engines
The organisation's risk surface mapped cleanly onto Snyk's four engines — one platform, one policy model, one reporting view:
Snyk CodeSAST
Static analysis of first-party source code — injection, broken authentication and crypto weaknesses caught while code is being written, not after release.
Snyk Open SourceSCA
Vulnerability and licence scanning of open-source dependencies, with upgrade paths and reachability context so teams fix what actually matters.
Snyk ContainerContainer security
Image scanning for OS packages and application dependencies inside containers — risks surfaced before images ship to production.
Snyk IaCIaC security
Misconfiguration scanning for infrastructure definitions — Terraform, Kubernetes and cloud configs checked at commit time, not at incident time.
All four engines run under a single Snyk tenant structure — Groups and Organisations designed once, so policy, access and reporting inherit cleanly as coverage scales.
what i did
Platform, coverage, automation — then hand it to the pipeline
- Designed the Snyk tenant structure — Groups and Organisations — then onboarded source repositories in priority phases via the SCM integration
- Tuned Snyk policies and risk-based triage rules so developers see real issues, not noise
- Configured Snyk's Jira integration — validated findings flow directly into tickets with ownership, severity and remediation expectations attached
- Enabled Snyk pull-request checks in the delivery pipeline so developers get results inside their normal workflow
- Defined exception handling, reporting and escalation so the program runs day-to-day without security staff chasing teams
engagement flow
How the engagement flowed
Four phases, seven steps — click any step to see what happened and why it mattered.
outcome
From periodic reports to a continuous process
Value created
Detection moved earlier in the lifecycle, findings have clear owners and SLAs from the moment they're raised, and leadership gets a consolidated, measurable view of application risk. Security shifted from periodic scanning reports to a continuous, automated, Snyk-powered process.
snyk references
Straight from the Snyk documentation
Background on the platform capabilities referenced throughout this case study: