Socket

Socket is a developer-first security platform that protects your most critical apps from software supply chain attacks. In practice that means assessing, monitoring and responding to security threats on your behalf.

The natural audience is companies without a full security team. They also list Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Developer Tools and Open Source, so expect those to show up in the feature set. They are a mid-sized team, 51 to 200 people, which usually shapes who they work with.

Socket is based in Stanford, California. Their site is socket.dev.

Our checklist for this category: response times, what is included in monitoring, and reporting. A short pilot with your real data tells you more than any demo.

If you have worked with Socket, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.