lirantal/npm-security-best-practices

Features

• Dependency And Supply Chain - Offers defensive strategies and hardening techniques for managing dependencies and securing package publishing workflows.
• Secure Dependency Workflows - Implements secure workflows for installing, auditing, and updating external packages to minimize vulnerabilities.
• Project Lockfile Management - Maintains consistent dependency trees across environments by generating and validating project lockfiles with cryptographic hashes.
• Secure Dependency Workflows - Provides frameworks for managing secure dependency lifecycles, including isolation and integrity verification for Node.js projects.
• Build Provenance Attestors - Generates cryptographic attestations during the build process to provide verifiable proof of software origin and integrity.
• Supply Chain - Implements hardening techniques for package management, including lifecycle script disabling and registry-scoped dependency routing to prevent supply chain attacks.
• Dependency Lockfiles - Validates lockfiles and installation commands to ensure consistent, verified dependency versions across all development environments.
• Lockfile Integrity Validators - Verifies lockfiles against security policies to detect unauthorized modifications and ensure dependency integrity.
• Package Publishing - Enforces multi-factor authentication and secure token usage during the package publishing process to prevent unauthorized code distribution.
• Package Provenance Metadata - Generates verifiable provenance metadata for published packages to confirm origin and ensure output matches source code.
• Dependency Auditing - Scans external packages for security vulnerabilities and maintenance status to identify insecure dependencies before integration.
• Containerized Development Environments - Uses containerized workspaces to sandbox package execution and restrict access to host system resources.
• Package Installers - Configures package managers to disable dangerous lifecycle scripts and block untrusted sources during installation.
• Registry Security Policies - Establishes governance policies for enterprise registries to prevent dependency confusion and restrict access to untrusted content.
• Build Environment Isolation - Executes build processes within isolated containers to prevent malicious third-party code from accessing host system resources.
• Dependency Confusion Mitigators - Routes internal package requests to private sources to prevent public registry hijacking and dependency confusion.
• Lifecycle Script Sandboxes - Intercepts and disables automated package installation hooks to prevent arbitrary code execution during dependency setup.
• Configuration Hardening - Hardens package manager configurations by disabling unnecessary features and enforcing strict security policies during installation.
• Runtime Credential Injection - Injects sensitive credentials into containerized environments at runtime to avoid storing secrets in source code.
• Security Best Practices - Provides a comprehensive framework of security best practices for mitigating supply chain risks and ensuring integrity within the Node.js ecosystem.
• Secret and Credential Managers - Externalizes and injects sensitive authentication tokens at runtime to prevent accidental exposure of credentials.
• Software Supply Chain Security - Applies technical controls and governance policies to verify package provenance and protect development environments from untrusted code.
• Registry Routing Scopes - Directs package resolution to verified private sources to prevent dependency confusion attacks from public registries.
• Security Education - Guidelines for maintaining secure npm package development and dependency management.

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