Is This npm Package Safe? 7 Checks Before You Install
To check if an npm package is safe, verify its name, publisher, repository, install scripts, provenance and known advisories before you run npm install.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
To check if an npm package is safe, verify its name, publisher, repository, install scripts, provenance and known advisories before you run npm install.
Create an SBOM in six steps: set scope, pick CycloneDX or SPDX, generate from your lockfile or build, check it, store it per release, and keep it current.
A software supply chain attack abuses code you trust. Prevent one by inventorying dependencies, vetting new ones, locking builds and watching for change.
Choose an SCA tool by testing it on your own repositories. This 12-point checklist covers coverage, noise, reachability, licenses, SBOMs, CI and cost.
SCA license compliance tools list the licenses in your dependencies and flag the ones your policy bans. Compare OSV-Scanner, Trivy, ScanCode, ORT and more.
To run SCA on a monorepo, scan from the root with recursive discovery, cover every lockfile, and group results by workspace. Options for common tools.
Reachability analysis checks whether your code can call a dependency's vulnerable function. See how it works, what labels mean and where it falls short.
Find vulnerable dependencies for free with npm audit, pip-audit, OSV-Scanner, Trivy, Dependabot alerts or a browser scan. Commands and limits for each.
Dependabot and Renovate open update pull requests. SCA scanners find and rank vulnerable dependencies. Here is what each does and when to run them together.
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