Best Practices for Management
Some practices that should be followed to manage security vulnerabilities are:
- Have frequent Audits: You can use npm audit command to frequently scan your project for packages with vulnerabilities. This will ensure your project have no vulnerabilities and if it’s there then follow the above steps to fix it.
- Check before Updating: You should always check the update notes referred in the audit before updating because updating carelessly can have breaking changes for your project.
- Documentation: Always document the version of packages before and after changes and if possible copy the package.json file before every change to ensure that you always have a backup of working dependencies information.
- Testing for Changes: You must test for the expected behaviors in the parts of your project where the dependencies that you updated is used. After update testing makes sure there is no breaking changes in your project.
How to Fix Security Vulnerabilities with NPM ?
Node Package Manager(npm) is a package manager provided by NodeJS which is a JavaScript runtime environment. Using npm you can add packages to your project. When you install any package you get the count of security vulnerabilities, this vulnerabilities are exposed weaknesses that can be a security threat by attackers.
We will discuss How to Fix Security Vulnerabilities with NPM:
Table of Content
- Getting an audit
- Inspecting and fixing the vulnerabilities
- Common Types of Issues
- Best Practices for Management
- Automated Tools for Detection
- Updating and Patching
- Access Controls
- Monitoring Advisories