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Snyk: dependency security for your project

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What is Snyk?

Snyk is a security platform that scans your dependencies for known vulnerabilities. It integrates with your CI/CD pipeline, continuously monitors, and suggests automatic fixes.

Installation

npm install -g snyk
snyk auth

Basic scan

snyk test

Analyzes your package-lock.json or yarn.lock and reports vulnerabilities with severity, description, and advisory link.

Snyk Open Source

Scans open source dependencies against Snyk's vulnerability database. Offers automatic patches when available.

Snyk Code

SAST analysis that scans your source code for security vulnerabilities without execution.

Snyk Container

Scans Docker images for vulnerabilities in the base OS and image layers.

Benefits

  • Early vulnerability detection.
  • Continuous dependency monitoring.
  • Automatic fix PRs.
  • Full SDLC coverage.

Want to protect your project with Snyk? At Vynta we integrate security in your pipeline.

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