Quick facts
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- Secure your dependencies. Ship with confidence.
- Pricing
- Freemium
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About Socket
Socket is a developer-first security platform that caters to JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies. The platform's primary purpose is to protect code from vulnerable and malicious dependencies. To quickly evaluate the security and health of any open source package, it employs an ability to find and compare millions of open source packages. By doing so, Socket provides thorough visibility and proactive supply chain protection. Within the platform, open source packages are evaluated on facets such as Supply Chain Security, Quality, Maintenance, Vulnerability, and License. Socket has capabilities to block high-risk modules that pose threat such as loading risky bytecode, exfiltrating telemetry, or invoking remote payload loaders/backdoor patterns. It even raises an alarm for suspicious packages that involve potentially compromising processes like screen capture, hosting embedded API keys or bearing functionalities that look like command execution. Aimed at securing dependencies and ensuring safer code, Socket is a tool suitable for developers across different programming paradigms.
Pros
- Developer-first security platform
- Java
- Script, Python, Go support
- Proactive supply chain protection
- Open source package evaluation
- Specific dependency protection
- High-risk module blocking capability
- Telemetry protection
- Backdoor protection
- Raises alarm for suspicious packages
- Embeded API keys protection
- Command Execution Protection
Cons
- Limited to Java
- Script, Python, Go
- No mention of user interface
- No specific information on scalability
- Perhaps too developer-centered
- Potentially overwhelming security alerts
- No API mentioned
- Unknown effect on code performance
- License evaluation may be basic
- No multi-language support mention
- Limited to dependencies