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Best Practices

In-depth guides and analysis on best practices from the Safeguard engineering team.

252 articles

Bounty Program Scoping for Dependencies

How to scope a bug bounty program when most of your attack surface lives in third-party dependencies — with guidance on payouts, triage, and upstream coordination.

Apr 8, 20258 min read

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Confidential Computing in Supply Chain Integration

How Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, and AWS Nitro enclaves plug into build and signing pipelines, with attestation flows and operational tradeoffs.

Mar 18, 20255 min read

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Data Pipeline Platform Migration Security

Moving from one orchestration platform to another surfaces hidden trust relationships. A security-first migration plan for Airflow, Dagster, and Prefect transitions.

Dec 22, 20247 min read

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Post-Incident Vendor Coordination

When a vendor's incident affects you, the coordination work between their IR team and your ops becomes its own project. How to run it well.

Dec 20, 20246 min read

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Coordinated Disclosure Zero-Day Playbook

A playbook for coordinated disclosure of zero-day vulnerabilities, covering timelines, stakeholder management, embargo discipline, and the judgement calls in between.

Dec 12, 20248 min read

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Dev Machine Secrets: The Exfiltration Risks

Engineer laptops are the softest target in most organizations. Here is a senior engineer's look at the real exfiltration paths for developer secrets and how to shut them down.

Dec 10, 20247 min read

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Container Security Best Practices for 2025: Beyond Image Scanning

Container security has evolved far past vulnerability scanning. Here is what mature container security programs look like heading into 2025.

Dec 1, 20247 min read

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Crypto Exchange Supply Chain Hardening

Crypto exchanges are the highest-value software supply chain targets on the internet. A hardening playbook drawn from Lazarus, Ronin, and 3CX.

Nov 28, 20247 min read

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Zero Trust Principles Applied to the Software Supply Chain

Zero trust is not just a network architecture concept. Applied to the software supply chain, it fundamentally changes how organizations verify code, dependencies, and build processes.

Nov 25, 20247 min read

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Secrets Rotation Across Microservices: A Playbook

A practical senior engineer's playbook for rotating secrets across microservices without downtime, drift, or the quiet credential leaks that come from half-done cutovers.

Nov 22, 20247 min read

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Migrating VPN to Zero Trust: Supply Chain

A phased playbook for retiring corporate VPN concentrators in favor of zero trust network access, with specific guidance for protecting software supply chain pipelines.

Nov 18, 20247 min read

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Security Team Topology for a Supply Chain Program

How to structure a supply chain security program across AppSec, platform, TPRM, and incident response with clear ownership, cadences, and escalation paths.

Nov 18, 20246 min read