Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Years ago, we published the blog post, “Why do organizations trust Snyk to win the open source security battle?” which laid out the methodology and practices for building the Snyk Vulnerability Database.

Organizations waste enormous amounts of time chasing down security alerts that turn out to be nothing. Recent research from May 2025 shows that 70% of a security team's time is spent investigating alerts that are false positives, wasting massive amounts of time in the investigation rather than working on proactive security measures to improve organizational security posture.

AI coding assistants are transforming the way developers work. With a prompt and a click, entire blocks of logic appear, boilerplate fades into the background, and velocity shoots up. But as anyone who’s integrated these tools into their daily routine can tell you, increased speed can come with increased risk. Vulnerabilities sneak in. Fixes pile up. And somewhere in the blur, developer trust begins to erode.