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Best Practices

SvelteKit Supply Chain Considerations

SvelteKit's compiled-output philosophy gives it a smaller runtime footprint than React frameworks, but the build-time supply chain is just as complex. Here is what to watch for when you adopt Svelte in production.

Mar 6, 20266 min read
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MCP Server Capability Policy Enforcement

MCP servers expose tools that AI agents can call directly. Capability policy decides which tools each agent gets, with the same rigor as any other supply chain gate.

Mar 6, 20268 min read
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How to Generate an SBOM with GitHub Actions (2026)

SBOMs are a compliance table-stakes artifact in 2026. Here is a production GitHub Actions workflow that generates, signs, and attests a CycloneDX SBOM on every release.

Mar 6, 20266 min read
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How to Detect Malicious npm Packages: A Workflow

A practical detection workflow for malicious npm packages: install-time signals, registry heuristics, reachability checks, and CI gates that actually block attacks.

Mar 6, 20267 min read
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Procurement Security Questionnaires That Actually Work

How to design a supplier security questionnaire that produces usable signal, what to cut from standard templates, and how to integrate the output into real risk decisions.

Mar 6, 20267 min read
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AWS Step Functions Workflow Security

Step Functions workflows orchestrate everything from data pipelines to security automations. The workflow IAM role is almost always the most powerful thing in the stack. Here is how to lock it down.

Mar 6, 20267 min read
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Post-Quantum Signing: An Artifact Migration Plan

A concrete migration plan for artifact signing from ECDSA to ML-DSA and SLH-DSA, covering Sigstore, Notary, HSMs, and staged hybrid rollouts.

Mar 5, 20265 min read
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Tracking Vendor-Supplied Binaries In Your Runtime

Vendor binaries run as root and ship without SBOMs. Continuous discovery brings them under the same governance as your own code.

Mar 5, 20267 min read
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Vendor Risk During M&A Due Diligence

M&A due diligence usually ignores vendor risk until the day after close. By then, the buyer has inherited a vendor portfolio with no visibility and no leverage.

Mar 5, 20267 min read
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Safeguard vs Aqua Security Platform Review

A fact-based comparison of Safeguard and Aqua Security in 2026 across container coverage, runtime protection, SCA depth, and supply chain capabilities.

Mar 5, 20268 min read
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Monolith to Microservices: Supply Chain Changes

What really happens to your software supply chain when you decompose a monolith into services, and how to avoid trading one risk for forty new ones.

Mar 5, 20267 min read
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Dependency Compromise Timeline Reconstruction

How to rebuild a precise timeline after a dependency has been compromised, using lockfile history, registry metadata, and CI logs.

Mar 5, 20266 min read

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