Best Practices
In-depth guides and analysis on best practices from the Safeguard engineering team.
252 articles
Infisical: An Open-Source Secrets Platform Review
A senior engineer's assessment of Infisical as a self-hostable secrets platform, covering architecture, operational posture, and where it fits in 2024.
Rails Application Template Security
Rails application templates are powerful and dangerous: how they execute, what they can touch, and how to use them safely for new-project scaffolding.
SecOps Staffing For The Modern Program
Staffing a modern SecOps program is not about hiring more analysts. It is about defining roles that match how supply chain security work actually flows in 2026.
Safeguard vs Snyk: Detailed 2026 Comparison
A senior engineer's breakdown of how Safeguard and Snyk differ in 2026 across SCA depth, reachability analysis, remediation, and container security.
Azure Key Vault Rotation Patterns
Rotation is the Key Vault feature most teams nominally have and few actually operate. A walk through the patterns that work for secrets, keys, and certificates at scale.
Third-Party Risk Management for Software Vendors
A practical TPRM program for software vendors covering intake, tiering, annual review, SBOM ingestion, and continuous monitoring with staffing ratios and budgets.
Developer Workstation Forensics for Supply Chain
Forensic procedures for a developer workstation that may have executed a malicious package, from live triage through full imaging.
AWS AppConfig Dynamic Config Security
AppConfig ships configuration changes to running applications in seconds. That makes it a powerful tool and a compelling target. Here is how to run AppConfig safely.
Buy vs. Build a Supply Chain Security Platform
When building your own software supply chain security platform makes sense, when it does not, and the hybrid architecture most mature teams actually land on.
Supply Chain Incident Forensics Playbook
A practical, hour-by-hour forensics playbook for responding to software supply chain incidents, from first alert through root cause and disclosure.
GCP Cloud Functions Supply Chain Risks
The supply-chain risks unique to GCP Cloud Functions: dependency resolution at deploy time, buildpack trust, runtime identity, and the audit trail the service does and does not give you.
FAQ: When Do You Need a Dedicated SBOM Tool?
When a scanner's built-in SBOM export stops being enough — signals you need a dedicated SBOM tool, what one actually does, and how to evaluate.
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