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In-depth guides and analysis on application security from the Safeguard engineering team.

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Application Security

Better Ruby Gemfile security: a step-by-step guide

A step-by-step guide to auditing your Gemfile.lock, spotting RubyGems supply chain attacks, and locking down Ruby dependencies before they ship.

May 27, 20267 min read
Application Security

10 React security best practices

Real CVEs, real npm supply chain hijacks, and the concrete React practices — from CSP to token storage — that actually stop them.

May 26, 20268 min read
Application Security

Why Alert Fatigue, Not Tool Gaps, Is the Real AppSec Bott...

AppSec teams don't fail from missing tools, they fail from thousands of unprioritized alerts. Here's why alert fatigue is the real AppSec bottleneck.

May 26, 20267 min read
Application Security

6 Angular security best practices cheat sheet

A six-part cheat sheet on Angular security: sanitizer limits, AngularJS EOL, dependency risk, token storage, CSP nonces, and library auditing.

May 26, 20267 min read
Application Security

Comparing React and Angular secure coding practices

React auto-escapes JSX but not URLs; Angular sanitizes by context but allows explicit bypasses. Here's where each framework's XSS defenses actually stop.

May 26, 20269 min read
Application Security

Consolidation Wave: Why AppSec Vendors Are Buying Runtime...

CrowdStrike, Cisco, Tenable, and others have spent three years buying runtime-visibility startups. Here's why AppSec vendors need runtime context to fix alert overload.

May 26, 20268 min read
Application Security

AngularJS security fundamentals

AngularJS has been unpatched since January 2022, yet it still runs in production. Here's the CVE history, the sandbox saga, and how to find your exposure.

May 26, 20267 min read
Application Security

Top SAST solutions compared for 2026

Comparing Safeguard and Mend.io on SAST scope, CI/CD fit, and compliance coverage—what's verifiable, what to test yourself, and how a unified platform changes the tradeoffs.

May 26, 20268 min read
Application Security

eBPF and OpenTelemetry: The New Instrumentation Layer for...

eBPF and OpenTelemetry are becoming AppSec's new runtime instrumentation layer, catching supply chain attacks like the xz backdoor that static scanners miss entirely.

May 25, 20267 min read
Application Security

10 Spring Boot security best practices

Ten concrete Spring Boot security practices, with real CVEs, config flags, and file paths, to close the gaps attackers actually exploit.

May 25, 20267 min read
Application Security

Best application security testing providers ranked

Mend.io built its reputation on SCA and open source dependency scanning. Here's how Safeguard's supply chain security approach compares.

May 25, 20267 min read
Application Security

A guide to input validation with Spring Boot

Spring Boot doesn't validate input by default. Here's how Bean Validation actually works, where teams get it wrong, and how missing validation leads to injection and mass assignment.

May 25, 20266 min read

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