Case Study: Natera achieves comprehensive, developer-first application security and compliance with Snyk

How Natera partnered with Snyk for comprehensive application security

Natera, a biotechnology company building cell-free DNA testing software, faced a manual security bottleneck: developers spent time triaging pages of false positives and the 200+ engineer organization lacked automated visibility across custom code, open source dependencies, containers and Infrastructure as Code while needing to maintain healthcare compliance. To address this, Natera selected Snyk and its Cloud Native Application Security Platform—including Snyk Code—to enable developer-friendly, early-stage security scanning.

Snyk was implemented across IDEs (JetBrains IntelliJ), CI/CD and registries with Snyk Code, Snyk Container and Snyk IaC, giving teams enterprise-wide visibility and automated vulnerability detection before merge. The rollout empowered 40 security champions, reduced manual reviews and false positives, created an auditable trail for FDA/HIPAA/SOC 2 compliance, and improved software quality without slowing time to market by shifting remediation earlier in the SDLC.

Natera

Charlotte Townsley

Director, Security Engineering