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

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Application Security

API Security Testing Against the OWASP API Top 10: A Hands-On Guide

APIs are now the primary attack surface for most applications. Here is how to test for the OWASP API Security Top 10 risks systematically.

Feb 6, 20267 min read
Application Security

What is Secure by Design

Secure by Design turns CISA's 2023 guidance and pledge into concrete practice: memory-safe code, no default passwords, and verifiable SBOMs over marketing claims.

Feb 6, 20267 min read
Application Security

What is Secure by Default

Secure by default means software ships in its safest state out of the box. See real breaches, standards, and pledges driving this shift.

Feb 6, 20266 min read
Application Security

TypeScript Security Best Practices

How TypeScript's type system helps catch security bugs at compile time, and what it cannot protect you from.

Feb 5, 20265 min read
Application Security

Progressive Web App Security: The Risks Hiding in the Browser

PWAs blur the line between websites and applications. Their security model is browser-based, which introduces different risks than native applications.

Feb 5, 20265 min read
Application Security

What is Risk-Based Vulnerability Prioritization

CVSS alone can't sort 40,000 CVEs a year. Learn how reachability, EPSS, and KEV data cut real risk from noise.

Feb 5, 20266 min read
Application Security

HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: The Largest DDoS Attacks in Internet History

CVE-2023-44487 exploits a design flaw in HTTP/2 to amplify DDoS attacks, enabling record-breaking attacks peaking at 398 million requests per second.

Feb 5, 20265 min read
Application Security

What is a False Positive in Security Scanning

False positives waste security team hours flagging vulnerabilities that aren't actually exploitable. Here's how to spot, measure, and reduce them.

Feb 5, 20267 min read
Application Security

What is Noise Reduction in AppSec Tooling

Most AppSec scans return thousands of findings, but under 5% are ever reachable in production. Here's how noise reduction actually works.

Feb 5, 20267 min read
Application Security

JSON Parsing Library Vulnerabilities You Should Know About

JSON is the lingua franca of APIs, but the libraries that parse it have had serious security issues. Here is what to watch for in your stack.

Feb 4, 20265 min read
Application Security

RASP vs IAST: Which to Deploy in 2026

A practical comparison of Runtime Application Self-Protection and Interactive Application Security Testing for 2026, with deployment guidance based on real-world tradeoffs.

Feb 4, 20265 min read
Application Security

Spring Boot Security and Dependency Management

Securing Spring Boot applications with dependency management BOMs, vulnerability scanning, and hardened configurations.

Feb 4, 20264 min read

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