TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps vs. Snyk

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a multimode cloud access security broker.N/A

    Snyk

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASnyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and helps security teams to collaborate with their development teams. It boasts a developer-first approach that ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, driving developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an improved security posture. The vendor states Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including…

    $0

    Pricing
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud AppsSnyk
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Team (Snyk Open Source or Snyk Container or Snyk Infrastructure as Code)
    $23
    per month per user
    Business (Snyk Open Source or Snyk Container or Snyk Infrastructure as Code)
    $42
    per month per user
    Team (Snyk Open Source + Snyk Container + Snyk Code + Snyk Infrastructure as Code)
    $98
    per month per user
    Business (Snyk Open Source + Snyk Container + Snyk Code + Snyk Infrastructure as Code)
    $178
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud AppsSnyk
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is dependent on the number of developers selected, the number of products selected, and the payment term selected. Please visit the Snyk plans page for an interactive pricing calculator.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud AppsSnyk
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Snyk
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    User Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud AppsSnyk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (12 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud AppsSnyk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is well suited when working with other Microsoft Applications. For example, if you are working with Microsoft Office 365 it works very well when implementing CASB features. It works when implementing monitoring or blocks on Sanctioned applications however customizing the message to users is not that great.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Snyk
    Scenarios Where Snyk Is Well-Suited CI/CD Pipeline Integration (Node.js, Python, etc.) Container Security Open Source License Compliance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) SecurityScenarios Where Snyk May Be Less Appropriate Scanning Proprietary or Custom Code for Unknown Vulnerabilities Complex Monorepos with Custom Build Tools Organizations Requiring Custom Security Rules Advanced Security Teams Needing Correlation and Deep Triage.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Microsoft
    • The integration to Microsoft Entra ID is seamless, which allows Conditional Access to redirect the session to Microsoft Defender for Cloud App for it to take actions (Block or Monitor).
    • Tracker users' activity is very good when troubleshooting or running an investigate.
    • Detecting risky users through tight integration with Microsoft Entra ID is a very good feature.
    • Detecting mass downloads and blocking the download of files from non-manage company devices is a very good feature as well.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Snyk
    • Helps in dependency management
    • SAST - Static Application Security Testing
    • Infra Code Scan ( Terraform , Cloud Formation , Docker image scan)
    • OSSG
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Microsoft
    • It takes some time to scan and apply the policies when there is some sensitive information.
    • After it applies the policies, it works, but there is a delay.
    • It doesn't provide any way to scan Microsoft Teams when an external exchange of images is happening. You can always do the filtering on the documents during the chat, but if there is an image, then some kind of OCR capability is required to detect it. At present, there is no way [Microsoft Cloud App Security] can go and detect those kinds of images and alert us
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Snyk
    • The tool itself has many capabilities but using them operationally within the platform on a day to day basis for managing vulnerabilities is not a good experience.
    • Our company was in desparate need of a tool to help us manage vulnerabilities so we could achieve a SOC 2 assurance report without findings.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    Microsoft
    The interface is pretty simple and easy to use; however, you will need to do a lot of investigative research on your own to get comfortable with it. Originally, many of the Microsoft security tools had their own seperate consoles. Overtime, they have blended into one interface which is the ideal state. In some cases it is clear Microsoft had to pick which console a certain feature or setting was going to reside in and this leads to some confusion. For example, DLP is managed through Defender for Cloud Apps but you will also need to jump into Purview. For things like reverse proxy on your M365 tenant, you will need to go into Azure and setup conditional access rules. Not a big problem and I can understand why the settings are located where they are but for someone just starting out with Defender for Cloud Apps, it will take some time to figure out.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Snyk
    Developer-Centric Design - Snyk integrates directly into IDEs (like VS Code and IntelliJ), CI/CD pipelines, GitHub/GitLab, and container registries. Clear, Actionable Vulnerability report issues are categorized by severity.


    Reports include fix recommendations, pull request suggestions, and links to remediation advice.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    I have not utilized actual support but the Sales and Product teams have been super helpful in moving our implementation forward and showing us the best practices.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Snyk
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    More flexible and more features with easy integration with cloud services like Microsoft Azure and other cloud services. Overall both gives similar features but we prefer Microsoft cloud app security due to its high threat detection rate. mostly we have been able to stop the threat in very very less time.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Snyk
    Unfortunately, neither cover all of the use cases that we would like so we need to use both but they are both excellent tools as part of our vulnerability management. We find that Snyk helps us better with improving our MTTR of identified vulnerabilities when compared to inspector but that may be more based on how we have implemented both tools
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Cloud App Security saves us thousands of dollars finding and rectifying apps security issues
    • Identity Security Posture helps the organization identity stay in shape, saving thousands of dollars on security consultations
    • The cost of suffering a breach cannot be quantified, CAS helps minimize the chances of the attackers succeeding, with excellent historical logging for most operations
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Snyk
    • Increased developer experience
    • Better productivity due to shift left as Vulnerabilities are caught earlier in the SDLC process
    • Improved Vulnerability Management
    • Common dashboard for various stages in CI/CD
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots