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Socket Security

About Socket Security

Socket Security offers a platform that blocks malicious packages before they reach customer code. The company was founded in 2021. The platform detects and blocks malicious packages in real time. It works by analyzing the behavior of dependencies. Socket scans packages and updates for malicious behavior across major registries.

Products

  • Socket Firewall: Blocks malicious packages at install time.
  • Socket for GitHub: Catches risky dependency additions and malicious updates in pull requests before they merge.
  • Socket Reachability: Filters vulnerability alerts for what is actually reachable from the code.
  • Dependency Search: Shows security insights for open source packages across major registries.

Used for

  • Filtering vulnerability noise by reachability analysis.
  • Searching security insights for open source packages.
  • Scanning AI models and GitHub Actions.

Who it is for

  • Organizations in technology, media, healthcare, and finance.
  • Solo developers or small teams.
  • Growing teams.
  • Enterprises.

From Socket Security's own website, read 2026-10-24. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Application Security

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Socket Security. It comes from our DevSecOps & Application Security Testing buyer guide.

25%
Finding Accuracy & Risk Prioritization
False-positive and false-negative rates on your own code; reachability analysis (is the vulnerable function actually called?); runtime/exposure context; EPSS/CVSS-based scoring; how a flood of findings collapses to a short, ranked, defensible work queue
20%
Developer Workflow Integration
Native IDE plugins, PR/MR checks and inline comments, SCM (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/Azure DevOps) and CI/CD integration, quality/security gates, credible one-click autofix, and how little context-switching a developer needs to remediate
20%
Scanning Coverage & Engine Depth
SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, and DAST/API coverage; supported languages and frameworks; vulnerability and malicious-package intelligence; SBOM generation and open-source license analysis; scan speed on large monorepos
15%
ASPM & Consolidation
De-duplication and correlation across first- and third-party scanners, code-to-cloud/runtime context, application risk graph or single risk score per app, policy-as-code, and openness to ingesting tools you already own rather than locking you in
10%
AI-Generated Code Security
Detection of AI-assisted/AI-authored code, guardrails for coding-assistant and agentic workflows, security of LLM/MCP integrations and open-source AI models, and whether the platform keeps pace with code generated faster than humans review it
10%
Governance, Compliance & Deployment
RBAC/SSO, audit trails and attestation, policy gates mapped to PCI-DSS/SOC 2/NIST SSDF, SBOM/VEX export, SaaS vs. self-managed/air-gapped and FedRAMP options, and clean API/data export for your own reporting

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Quick Facts

socket.dev Pricing page
CategoryCybersecurity
SubcategoryApplication Security
DeploymentSelf-hosted, Client/server

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