Best Practices
In-depth guides and analysis on best practices from the Safeguard engineering team.
252 articles
Asset Discovery As CMDB Replacement In 2026
The traditional CMDB cannot keep up with cloud, AI, and agent workloads. Continuous discovery is the only model that survives 2026.
Vendor SBOM Ingest Program Blueprint
Asking vendors for SBOMs is easy. Building a program that actually does something with them is harder. Here is a working blueprint that scales past a hundred vendors.
Database Platform Migration: Supply Chain
Database migrations touch every part of the software supply chain. This guide covers how to keep schemas, secrets, and data lineage secure during a platform change.
How to Sign Container Images with Cosign in Production
Keyless Cosign signing with Fulcio and Rekor is the 2026 default. Here is the production workflow, policy configuration, and the failure modes nobody warns you about.
How to Rotate Leaked Secrets With Automation (2026)
The 2026 playbook for automated secret rotation: detection pipelines, credential broker patterns, blast-radius analysis, and CI integration that actually holds up in production.
SecOps Budget Justification: Supply Chain Program
Supply chain SecOps budgets get cut because the case is told as fear instead of math. Here is a budget justification that survives a finance review.
Safeguard vs Wiz: Supply Chain Focus 2026
How Safeguard and Wiz compare in 2026 for software supply chain security, SCA depth, container provenance, and autonomous remediation.
Vendor Offboarding and Supply Chain Data Destruction
A practical playbook for offboarding software vendors and ensuring data is actually destroyed, not just promised to be destroyed, across complex subprocessor chains.
Legacy COBOL Supply Chain Modernization: A Pragmatic Playbook
Modernize the supply chain around COBOL systems without rewriting them. Build provenance, SBOMs, and policy gates for mainframe code that is not going anywhere.
Build Server Compromise Investigation
A hands-on investigation guide for compromised build servers, from initial containment through rootkit checks and clean rebuild.
CyberArk Conjur for Enterprise Secrets Management
Where Conjur fits in 2024 for enterprise secrets management, what it does well, where it hurts, and how to roll it out without drowning the platform team.
Incident Response Playbook: Supply Chain Compromise
A step-by-step playbook for responding to upstream dependency, build system, and vendor compromises, including roles, timelines, and stakeholder communications.
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