Snyk recently acquired Israeli startup Helios. With this acquisition, the DevSecOps specialist aims to expand its ASPM (Application Security Posture Management) Snyk AppRisk service with more functionality.
With the acquisition, of which no financial details were disclosed, the DevSecOps specialist acquires a runtime data collection and insights developer. With this acquisition, Snyk aims to expand the functionality of its AppRisk ASPM service further. This will give the Snyk DevSecOps platform runtime intelligence for understandable insights into application risks throughout the development cycle, from code to deployment in cloud environments.
Functionality
Integrating at the platform, kernel and application levels, Helios’ eBPF and OTel (OpenTelemetry)-based runtime data collection techniques provide Snyk AppRisk users with access to runtime data, insight into how applications interact with each other in their environments and a real-time understanding of precisely what is happening during an execution operation.
Combined with Snyk’s development and build context, this should provide a “holistic” view of application risks, the DevSecOps specialist said in its press release.
With these insights, customers should ultimately be able to discover all the software assets needed to build and deploy applications. Among many other things, this should also give them a better understanding of what is needed to identify and secure coverage gaps.
In addition to Helios, the DevSecOps specialist will integrate Helios’ runtime data collection tools based on OpenTelemetry into its Snyk AppRisk platform.
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