Architecture
In-depth guides and analysis on architecture from the Safeguard engineering team.
8 articles
Multi-Tenant Isolation for FedRAMP HIGH
How Safeguard achieves hard multi-tenant isolation in a platform that meets FedRAMP HIGH — the boundaries, the proofs, and the trade-offs we accepted.
Safeguard Policy Evaluation Engine
How Safeguard's policy engine evaluates thousands of rules per artifact with predictable latency — the compiler, the cache layer, and the decision trail.
Griffin Agent Loop: Design Decisions
The design rationale behind Griffin, Safeguard's triage agent — how the loop is structured, why we bounded reasoning depth, and how tool calls stay auditable.
Safeguard Gold Build Pipeline: How It Works
A walkthrough of the Gold Build pipeline that produces reproducible, attested, policy-verified container images and binaries for Safeguard customers.
Safeguard Knowledge Graph Architecture
How Safeguard's knowledge graph unifies components, vulnerabilities, policies, and runtime evidence into a single queryable substrate that powers every product surface.
Inside Safeguard's Reachability Engine
A deep look at how Safeguard's reachability engine combines call graph construction, symbolic analysis, and runtime evidence to reduce vulnerability noise by an order of magnitude.
Monorepo Security: Dependency Management at Scale
Monorepos centralize code but create unique security challenges. Learn how to manage shared dependencies, enforce security policies, and maintain SBOMs across a monorepo architecture.
Microservices Security Architecture: A Supply Chain Perspective
Microservices multiply your dependency surface. This guide covers service mesh security, inter-service authentication, and dependency management across distributed architectures.