Does Dependency Security Really Need the Cloud?

The question cloud-based security tooling. especially when you need continuously updated data, organization-wide policies, reporting, or large-scale analysis. I was interested in a narrower engineering problem: What would a dependency vulnerability analyzer look like if the core analysis had to work entirely locally? That constraint led me to build Dependency Vulnerability Companion, an IntelliJ-family plugin that analyzes dependency declarations against a vulnerability database bundled with the plugin. The constraints were deliberately strict: No account No token No API key No network call du