Socket Security

Socket uses advanced code analysis and AI-powered risk detection to add security metrics to your NPM package pages and search results, defending your project against malware and security vulnerabilities in advance.
What is Socket Security?
Socket Security is a Firefox add-on that enhances the security of your projects by using advanced code analysis and AI-powered risk detection. It adds security metrics to your NPM package pages and search results, protecting your project in advance from malware and security vulnerabilities.

Add-on stats

By: SocketDev
Users: 43 ▲ 2
Rating: 4.00 (2)
Version: 1.4.0 (Last updated: 2024-11-07)
Creation date: 2023-06-17
Weekly download count: 2
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • https://socket.dev/*
Size: 1.55M
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Socket Security (v1.4.1)
5.00 (6) 875
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Add-on summary

Over the past decade, it's become clear that open source software has won. Sharing code freely has made it drastically cheaper and faster to build software – and tech innovation has accelerated as a result. But security has often been an afterthought.

We are a team of open source maintainers with over 1 billion monthly downloads to our names. Working on the frontlines of open source, we've witnessed firsthand how supply chain attacks have swept across our communities and damaged trust in open source.

The entire security industry is obsessed with identifying known vulnerabilities. There are hundreds of variations of CVE scanners, but they all miss the point. Looking for known vulnerabilities is reactive. Vulnerabilities take weeks or months to be discovered. In today's culture of fast development, a malicious dependency can be updated, merged, and running in production in days or even hours.

Unlike other tools, Socket detects and blocks supply chain attacks before they strike, mitigating the worst consequences. Socket uses deep package inspection to peel back the layers of a dependency to characterize its actual behavior.

Want to defend your entire organization against open-source attacks? Install the Socket Security GitHub app and get protected today!

User reviews

Doesn't work at https://pypi.org/, so it's useless to me considering I don't use specifically NPM.
by RokeJulianLockhart, 2023-11-30
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Socket Security requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Socket Security is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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