Monitoring Advisories
Mostly package managers finds possible security vulnerabilities in their packages and fixes it in a newer version and also notify it, so to monitor this announcements you can follow the respective methods:
- Subscribe to security advisories: You can subscribe for security advisories from npm itself or other security providers like Snyk or WhiteSource. They provide notification or have web pages to keep you informed about possible vulnerabilities of packages.
- Automate Vulnerability Scanning: You can integrate automated vulnerability scanning tools like Jfrog into your CI/CD pipeline. This makes sure your project vulnerabilities are identified as early as possible.
- Personally view the advisories: You can personally check regular reviews of security advisories to identify and check for package vulnerabilities and fixing them thus only focusing on the packages you are using.
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