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Security
DevOps

Automate Vulnerability Scanning Without a Security Team

Get enterprise-grade dependency security coverage in about an hour a month.

Time Required

1 hour per month

Expected Result

A running list of known vulnerabilities in your dependencies, triaged by severity, with patches already opened as pull requests.

Recommended Tools

1

Run a Dependency Audit for Known CVEs

Connect Snyk to your repository so it continuously scans your dependencies against known vulnerability databases.

Snyk
2

Triage Severity and Exploitability

Feed Snyk's findings into Claude and ask it to rank which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in your specific setup versus theoretical risk.

Claude
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3

Generate Patch Pull Requests

Use Cursor to write and test the dependency updates or code changes needed to close each high-priority vulnerability.

Cursor
4

Track Remaining Risk

Log any accepted risks or deferred fixes in a Notion AI tracker so nothing falls through the cracks month over month.

Notion AI
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