Military Audit: Snyk

Snyk - Military Domain Audit

Snyk is a Boston- and London-headquartered, Israeli-founded cybersecurity company that provides software-composition-analysis, static-application-security-testing, and cloud/container-security tooling for software developers ¹². This audit assesses Snyk against the eight Military domain categories using only the sources compiled in the underlying research memo; where repeated, differently-worded searches returned no relevant material, that is recorded as a documented negative finding rather than an omission.

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Snyk’s public profile identifies it as a privately held, Israeli-founded developer-security company with primary operations in Boston and London and a Tel Aviv office ¹². No public evidence identified of any contract, tender, framework agreement, or memorandum of understanding between Snyk and Israel’s Ministry of Defense, the IDF, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Border Police, or any other Israeli state security body. No public evidence identified of a Snyk listing in SIBAT’s Defense and Homeland Security Directory or any comparable Israeli defense-export directory. No public evidence identified of press releases, trade-press reporting, or corporate announcements describing a defence-cooperation agreement, joint venture, or partnership between Snyk and an Israeli defence entity.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Snyk’s commercial product line consists of open-source dependency scanning, static code analysis, and cloud/container security tooling built for enterprise software-development teams ¹. No public evidence identified that Snyk manufactures, markets, or maintains ruggedised, tactical, mil-spec, or defence-grade variants of these products. No public evidence identified of Snyk holding FedRAMP authorization, a U.S. Department of Defense Impact Level (IL4/IL5) accreditation, or an equivalent Israeli defence-sector security certification. No public evidence identified of export-licence applications, end-user certificates, or government export-control reviews specific to Snyk sales to Israeli defence or security end-users.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Snyk operates as a software-as-a-service company with no manufacturing, vehicle, or heavy-machinery product line ¹. No public evidence identified of Snyk equipment, machinery, or construction activity documented by NGOs, photographic evidence, or UN reporting in Israeli settlements, at the separation barrier, or at military installations. No public evidence identified of direct or indirect (dealer/distributor) equipment supply by Snyk relevant to this category. No public evidence identified of Snyk holding construction or engineering contracts for checkpoints, detention facilities, military bases, the barrier, or settlement infrastructure.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of Snyk supplying components, sub-systems, raw materials, or specialist manufacturing services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, or IMI Systems/Elbit Land. No public evidence identified of joint development, co-production, technology-transfer, or licensed-manufacturing agreements between Snyk and any Israeli defence firm.

Snyk was founded in 2015 by Guy Podjarny, Assaf Hefetz, and Danny Grander; Podjarny served in an IDF cyber/intelligence unit and Grander in the IDF Research & Development cyber division before founding the company ¹³. Before Snyk, Grander was chief technology officer and head of research at Gita Technologies, an Israeli developer of signals-intelligence, communications-interception, real-time-interception, military-grade encryption, and cyber-warfare tools for signals-intelligence, law-enforcement, homeland-security, and defense customers, until Gita was acquired by Verint Systems in 2016 ⁴⁵; Grander stepped back from Snyk’s day-to-day operational role in 2021 ⁴. Eli Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Helios - a runtime-security company Snyk acquired in January 2024, where Cohen now serves as Director of Technology Incubation for Snyk Labs - served in IDF Unit 8200 from 2005 to 2009, prior to his technology career ⁶⁷. These are pre-Snyk or acquired-company employment histories rather than corporate acts by Snyk itself, and No public evidence identified of Snyk, as a company, supplying any Israeli defence prime.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

Snyk operates as a SaaS/cloud developer-tooling vendor with no identified physical logistics, facilities-management, or base-services business line ¹. No public evidence identified of Snyk service contracts covering catering, transport, fuel, waste management, facilities, or telecom for IDF bases, training facilities, detention centres, or security installations in the West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the Negev, or elsewhere. No public evidence identified of Snyk shipping, freight-forwarding, or port-handling contracts servicing Israeli defence logistics or military cargo.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of any Snyk role, direct or indirect, in lethal-systems manufacturing, munitions or precursor supply, or strategic platforms such as Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, fighter aircraft, tanks, or warships. Snyk’s products are general-purpose code, dependency, and container vulnerability-scanning tools with no designed targeting or weapons-integration function, which places any hypothetical defence-sector customer usage outside the kinetic-effects scope of this domain ¹. No public evidence identified of sub-system or critical-component supply - including guidance electronics, fire-control, radar, propulsion, or warhead casings - by Snyk.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of any government decision to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke an export licence for Snyk products to Israeli military or security end-users in any jurisdiction. No public evidence identified of investigations, citations, or enforcement actions regarding Snyk’s compliance with arms embargoes or export-control regimes vis-à-vis Israel. No public evidence identified of court proceedings, judicial reviews, or legal challenges naming Snyk in connection with defence supply to Israel.

Snyk remains privately held as of mid-2026 and has not filed an SEC S-1 or other public-offering registration statement, so no 10-K/20-F disclosures exist to review for defense-related risk factors ⁸. Reporting has described Snyk’s IPO prospects as having dimmed, consistent with its continued private status ⁸. Snyk’s board, per the company’s own board and leadership pages and its 2021 announcement welcoming director Tamar Yehoshua, has included Guy Podjarny, Mike Scarpelli, Sanjay Poonen, Ken Fox, Ping Li, Philippe Botteri, Peter McKay, Tamar Yehoshua, and Kathleen Annala ⁹¹⁰¹¹. Peter McKay announced in February 2026 that he was stepping down as CEO, citing the need for AI-focused leadership, departed the role in April 2026, and was succeeded on an interim basis by CFO Ken MacAskill, while Podjarny returned to the board as chairman and McKay remained a board member and major shareholder ¹²¹³¹⁴. Snyk also announced layoffs of 90 employees in 2026 ¹⁵¹⁶.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

No public evidence identified that Snyk, its parent, subsidiaries, or named controlling principals appear in the OHCHR database of business enterprises maintained pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 31/36 and 53/25, across its 2020, 2023, and 2025 iterations ¹⁷¹⁸. No public evidence identified that Snyk appears in the named-company annex of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s July 2025 report “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” (A/HRC/59/23), whose identified technology and manufacturing entries do not include Snyk ¹⁹²⁰. No public evidence identified that Snyk appears in PAX’s June 2024 report “The Companies Arming Israel and Their Financiers,” which focuses on arms producers such as Boeing, General Dynamics, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Rolls-Royce and their financiers ²¹. No public evidence identified that Snyk appears in the Who Profits research center’s company database.

Snyk was not identified among the companies surveyed or responding to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s 2024 “Switched off” briefing on tech-sector opacity regarding Israel/OPT operations, which centred on companies including Ericsson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, TikTok, and Meta ²². No public evidence identified of Al-Haq naming Snyk in its business-and-human-rights advocacy submissions concerning the OHCHR database ²³. No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment, or exclusion campaign targeting Snyk on defence-sector grounds. No public evidence identified of Snyk public statements, policy changes, contract terminations, or end-use monitoring commitments issued specifically in response to civil-society pressure on defence supply chains, as distinct from general employee-welfare statements.

Following the outbreak of conflict in October 2023, CEO Peter McKay stated that “the well being of our Israeli employees is our primary concern, and our thoughts are with them and their families,” and confirmed that Snyk’s Tel Aviv office remained open for local employees to use company resources to stay safe ³. This is an employee-welfare statement rather than a defence-cooperation or co-belligerency statement. No public evidence identified of Snyk announcing a reservist-pay or military-leave salary-subsidy policy specific to its Israeli operations. Snyk operates a 1:1 corporate charitable-matching programme, capped at $500 per donation with a $1 minimum, covering categories including educational institutions, health and human services, arts and cultural organizations, civic and community organizations, environmental organizations, and most 501(c)(3) organizations, per a third-party corporate-giving database entry; no explicit inclusion or exclusion of military-support, religious, or political organizations is stated on the page, and no evidence of policy oscillation was found ²⁴. Snyk’s Israeli-founded status and its December 2022 fundraising round have also been the subject of Israeli and Boston-area business press coverage ²³.

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