Node Day - Node.js Security in the Enterprise
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This document discusses Node.js security in the enterprise. It covers communicating security priorities between technical and business teams, gathering intelligence on vulnerabilities, and implementing technical controls like linting, testing, shrinkwrapping dependencies, and retire.js to detect vulnerable modules. It emphasizes that enterprises are responsible for vetting all dependencies and that the greatest vulnerability is often developers, so peer review is important.
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