As AI moves into the SDLC, the economics of security shift in measurable ways. Defensive-labour pricing, vendor concentration, breach cost, regulatory burden, sovereign-deployment cost — Safeguard publishes its perspective on every one of these so customers and policymakers can read the same numbers we do.
Hourly cost trends for AppSec, SecEng, and pentest labour across major regions, with year-on-year deltas.
From public-disclosure aggregates plus our anonymised customer telemetry (opt-in only). Sliced by industry and incident class.
Concentration indices for software supply chain dependencies. Surface load-bearing OSS libs that quietly underpin a sector.
Cost trajectory for full Griffin lineup on customer-controlled GPU vs commercial cloud. Updated as hardware prices shift.
Watts-per-inference for each Griffin variant + Eagle + Lino. Published per release; tracked over time.
Hours per quarter a typical enterprise spends on supply-chain regulatory evidence. Broken down by framework (SOC 2, DORA, NIS2, EO 14028, DPDP).
Quantitative analysis of the financial impact of false-positive triage at portfolio scale. New for 2026: AI-augmented triage cost-curves.
Read full reportFirst annual measurement of regulatory evidence-collection burden across major jurisdictions. Methodology + raw aggregates.
Read full reportPer-variant inference energy use vs general-purpose LLM baseline on the same security workloads. Carbon-cost translation by region.
Read full reportIdentified the 50 OSS libraries most concentrated in load-bearing positions across financial-services, healthcare, and SaaS.
Read full reportMethodology + raw aggregates are published on a quarterly cadence. Customer participation is opt-in and individually anonymised — no per-customer attribution appears in any release. Aggregated anonymised data sets are released on a Creative Commons licence (CC BY 4.0) for academic and regulator use. Contact research@safeguard.sh for the data dictionary or to discuss participation.
Opt-in customer cohorts, academic partnerships, and regulator briefings. Email research@safeguard.sh.