Case Study: Intuit achieves streamlined in-editor dependency vulnerability testing with Snyk

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Peter Benjamin, a Senior Software Engineer on Intuit’s Cyber Security Team, needed a faster way to surface and remediate known dependency vulnerabilities during development. Intuit relied on tools that scanned manifests (package.json, Gemfile) but still forced developers to leave their editor to research and patch issues. Benjamin turned to Snyk—using Snyk test, its monitoring/watch features and programmatic API—to bring vulnerability checks directly into his workflow.

To solve this, Benjamin built the vscode-snyk VS Code extension that calls Snyk’s API/CLI so developers can run snyk test from the editor (via a simple command palette action), get continuous monitoring, and even open PRs to fix issues automatically. The extension integrated Snyk into both personal and work projects, reducing context switching and speeding remediation; the prototype took about 2–3 hours to produce and was published for others to install and contribute to.

Intuit

Peter Benjamin

Senior Software Engineer on the Cyber Security