Security Overview

Socket provides the most comprehensive open source risk analysis on the market. By analyzing the full picture – from maintainers and how they behave, to open-source codebases and how they evolve – we enable security teams to identify risk from JavaScript malware, hidden code, typo-squatting, misleading packages, permission creep, unmaintained or abandoned npm packages, and poor security practices.

Security is not just a feature. It’s our mission.

Every design decision in Socket begins with the safety and privacy of your data in mind. We can't read your source code, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Socket works.

Our commitments to you:

• We never upload your source code
• We never modify your source code
• We use industry-leading security practices across our services
  • Security Certifications
  • Security Audits
  • Web Security Measures
• We take precautions to keep your report data safe
• Our team takes security seriously

We never upload your source code

Socket is designed to work without the need to analyze, upload, or share your source code.

We never modify your source code

Under no circumstances will we ever modify a customer’s source code or deployment environment.

• We do not request these permissions, nor do we ever use them.
• In the event our service is compromised, your source code will not be affected

We use industry-leading security practices across our services

Security audits

Socket intends to regularly contract security consultants to ensure the security of our services and customer data. Security consultants perform regular security audits and infiltration testing. Any issues that are reported to our security team or raised during security audits will be resolved as soon as possible.

We take precautions to keep your report data safe

Your data is end-to-end encrypted to keep it safe in transit. We use multiple techniques to make sure only you have access to your information. We're continuously working to make sure our code is rock solid.

Additional questions

If you have questions or concerns not addressed in this document, please reach out to us at security@socket.dev and we’ll be happy to help.

You can also visit our security vulnerability disclosure page.