diff --git a/deps/npm/.snyk b/deps/npm/.snyk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..7a76a52ce24336
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/npm/.snyk
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Snyk (https://snyk.io) policy file, patches or ignores known vulnerabilities.
+version: v1.13.5
+ignore: {}
+# patches apply the minimum changes required to fix a vulnerability
+patch:
+  SNYK-JS-HTTPSPROXYAGENT-469131:
+    - npm-profile > make-fetch-happen > https-proxy-agent:
+        patched: '2019-10-04T05:46:18.979Z'
+    - pacote > make-fetch-happen > https-proxy-agent:
+        patched: '2019-10-04T05:46:18.979Z'
diff --git a/deps/npm/package.json b/deps/npm/package.json
index 71443a9ee2c40d..1c57b4f3aa5351 100644
--- a/deps/npm/package.json
+++ b/deps/npm/package.json
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@
     "which": "~1.3.0",
     "worker-farm": "~1.5.0",
     "wrappy": "~1.0.2",
-    "write-file-atomic": "~2.1.0"
+    "write-file-atomic": "~2.1.0",
+    "snyk": "^1.230.5"
   },
   "bundleDependencies": [
     "abbrev",
@@ -248,14 +249,16 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "dumpconf": "env | grep npm | sort | uniq",
-    "prepare": "node bin/npm-cli.js --no-timing prune --prefix=. --no-global && rimraf test/*/*/node_modules && make -j4 doc",
+    "prepare": "npm run snyk-protect && node bin/npm-cli.js --no-timing prune --prefix=. --no-global && rimraf test/*/*/node_modules && make -j4 doc",
     "preversion": "bash scripts/update-authors.sh && git add AUTHORS && git commit -m \"update AUTHORS\" || true",
     "tap": "tap --timeout 300",
     "tap-cover": "tap --nyc-arg='--cache' --coverage --timeout 600",
     "test": "standard && npm run test-tap",
     "test-coverage": "npm run tap-cover -- \"test/tap/*.js\" \"test/network/*.js\" \"test/broken-under-*/*.js\"",
     "test-tap": "npm run tap -- \"test/tap/*.js\" \"test/network/*.js\" \"test/broken-under-*/*.js\"",
-    "test-node": "tap --timeout 240 \"test/tap/*.js\" \"test/network/*.js\" \"test/broken-under-nyc*/*.js\""
+    "test-node": "tap --timeout 240 \"test/tap/*.js\" \"test/network/*.js\" \"test/broken-under-nyc*/*.js\"",
+    "snyk-protect": "snyk protect"
   },
-  "license": "Artistic-2.0"
+  "license": "Artistic-2.0",
+  "snyk": true
 }