Case Study: Breathe achieves stronger developer-first security visibility with Snyk

How Breathe Life established a developer-first security culture with Snyk and StackHawk

Breathe, a Canadian insurtech company, needed to strengthen security without slowing down its fast-moving developer teams. Working in a highly regulated insurance environment, the company wanted better visibility into open source dependencies, containers, and application vulnerabilities while supporting a developer-first security culture. To address this, Breathe evaluated Snyk Open Source and other Snyk products alongside StackHawk.

With Snyk, Breathe gained deeper insight into vulnerabilities, including the ability to identify minimum safe version upgrades and trace transitive dependencies causing issues. Snyk and StackHawk helped the team scan more effectively in CI/CD, increased visibility into the security posture by 41% in three months, and drove a 400% increase in developer adoption over the same period. Breathe also reported that Snyk Code and StackHawk showed the platform was free of obvious major vulnerabilities, giving the team more confidence as it scaled.

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Francois Allard

Director of Engineering