Container Security Scanning: What Trivy Finds That Snyk Misses and Vice Versa
Trivy and Snyk have different vulnerability databases and different severity calibrations. Running both on the same image produces non-overlapping findings — and that matters for prioritization.
Trivy and Snyk have different vulnerability databases and different severity calibrations. Running both on the same image produces non-overlapping findings — and that matters for prioritization.
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- trivy
- snyk
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