Best Practices
In-depth guides and analysis on best practices from the Safeguard engineering team.
252 articles
Pydantic v2 Security Implications
Pydantic v2 rewrote the core in Rust and changed validation semantics. Here is what that means for security-sensitive code, from input coercion to ReDoS exposure.
Lessons from CrowdStrike: Rethinking How We Deploy Software Updates
The CrowdStrike outage wasn't just an EDR problem. It exposed fundamental weaknesses in how the entire industry handles software updates, from kernel drivers to SaaS platforms.
Evidence-Driven SecOps vs Feeling-Driven SecOps
Two SecOps programs can look identical on a status report and behave completely differently when the next incident hits. The difference is whether they run on evidence or on feeling.
GCP Workload Identity Federation: Supply Chain Uses
How to use GCP Workload Identity Federation to eliminate long-lived service account keys from your supply chain: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, external builders, and the misconfigurations that silently undermine the design.
How to Comply With EU CRA: A Practical Checklist
The EU Cyber Resilience Act requires vendors to ship secure-by-default products, provide SBOMs, and report exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours. Here is a concrete compliance path.
FastAPI Supply Chain Security: A Working Guide
FastAPI's dependency surface is deceptively large. Here is how to lock it down in practice, covering Starlette, Pydantic, Uvicorn, and the plugins you likely missed.
Right-to-Repair and Software Supply Chain Security
How the right-to-repair movement is reshaping software supply chain obligations in 2026, from firmware transparency to the security implications of mandated component access.
Retail POS Supply Chain Security
Practical controls and standards shaping point-of-sale software supply chains, from PCI DSS 4.0 to PA-DSS successors and retailer-specific frameworks.
Azure Policy for Supply Chain Enforcement
Azure Policy is the enforcement layer most Azure platforms underuse. A concrete, policy-by-policy guide to wiring it into supply chain controls that actually stick.
AWS Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store
Two AWS services, overlapping features, and a pricing difference that adds up to real money. The decision framework for Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store, based on what actually goes wrong in production.
Safeguard vs GitHub Advanced Security 2026
A technical comparison of Safeguard and GitHub Advanced Security in 2026 across scanning depth, secret detection, container coverage, and cost.
How to Audit Open Source Licenses for Compliance
A senior engineer's playbook for auditing open source licenses across modern polyglot repos, from SPDX extraction to enforcement in CI and legal reporting.
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