Application Security
In-depth guides and analysis on application security from the Safeguard engineering team.
490 articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Self-healing security runs on Safeguard.
Your first fix PR is minutes away.
No sales call required, even your agent can complete the purchase over MCP.