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Introduction to OWASP dependency check

Introduction to OWASP dependency check

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Introduction to OWASP dependency check

- [Manny] OWASP Dependency Check is a tool that analyses your project's dependencies and checks for known issues. So go to: owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Dependency_Check and once you get to this page, feel free to read the introduction to what the Dependency-Check, is. Then once you're ready, click on Command Line. Quick Download, here, so you can download the actual file, that we'll need. So go ahead and do that. So depending on the type of project you're developing, or a type of program you would like to use to do so, take a look at the different options to install and check your dependencies. However, for the sake of our node.js project, we'll use it with zip file we just downloaded. So let me demonstrate, so once the file has been downloaded, let's go to our Downloads folder here and extract the zip file. And then, let's go to the bin here, and let's make sure that we select the dependency-check.sh. So what I'm gonna do to make this very quick, I'm going to right-click and copy…

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