Best Practices
In-depth guides and analysis on best practices from the Safeguard engineering team.
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Secure Boot UEFI and Software Supply Chain Links
How UEFI Secure Boot, shim, and Microsoft third-party UEFI CA connect to software supply chain risk in OS and firmware update pipelines.
Renovate Bot Configuration Recipes for 2026
Renovate is the more powerful dependency-update bot, and its config surface is large. Here are the recipes worth knowing and the defaults worth overriding.
How to implement network segmentation in a data center
A step-by-step guide to network segmentation best practices in the data center: mapping traffic, VLANs, microsegmentation, least-privilege rules, and verification.
FAQ: Building an AppSec Program From Scratch
How to stand up an application security program from zero in 2026 — headcount, tooling, first 90 days, metrics, and the traps that waste the first year.
Hiring Software Supply Chain Security Engineers
What to screen for, how to structure interviews, and the signals that distinguish real supply chain security engineers from adjacent AppSec talent in 2026.
Managing Security Debt: A Practical Guide
Security debt is inevitable, but it does not have to be unmanageable. Learn how to quantify, prioritize, and systematically pay down your organization's security debt.
Express.js Security Middleware: An Audit
Express remains the default Node.js framework at most shops, and its middleware ecosystem is a thirteen-year accumulation of packages, some abandoned, some indispensable. This is a pragmatic audit of what belongs in a 2023 Express stack.
What is Threat Detection
Threat detection means spotting active attacks before they succeed. See real dwell-time data, CVE examples, and detection metrics that matter.
How to implement password policy best practices
A step-by-step guide to implement password policy best practices: aligning with NIST guidelines, dropping outdated complexity rules, and rolling out passwordless authentication.
What is a Vulnerability Disclosure Program
What a vulnerability disclosure program actually is, how it differs from a bug bounty, and what CISA, ISO, and the EU CRA now require of it.
FAQ: CycloneDX vs SPDX — Which to Use?
Practical answers to the most common CycloneDX vs SPDX questions: differences, tooling, regulatory preference, VEX support, and when to emit both.
Designing a Vulnerability Triage Workflow That Works
Most vulnerability triage processes are broken. Here is how to design a workflow that reduces noise, routes issues to the right owners, and actually gets things fixed.
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