Best Practices
In-depth guides and analysis on best practices from the Safeguard engineering team.
252 articles
How to Compare SCA Offerings Before Buying in 2026
A buyer's framework for evaluating SCA products in 2026: what to test, what to ignore in vendor pitches, and how to size the operational cost honestly.
API Gateway Security Baseline for 2026
A practical security baseline for API gateways in 2026, covering authentication, rate limiting, schema validation, observability, and the operational habits that keep gateways trustworthy.
Stopping Risky Dependencies At PR Time, Not Production
Catching risky dependencies after they reach production is expensive. PR-time policy gates stop them at the cheapest moment, with the right context and reviewer attention.
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.
Vendor Questionnaire Fatigue And How To End It
Security questionnaires have ballooned into 400-row spreadsheets that nobody reads carefully. Here is how to replace the ritual with evidence ingestion that actually changes vendor risk decisions.
You Cannot Secure What You Cannot See: Asset Discovery
Most breaches start with an asset nobody remembered owning. Continuous asset discovery is the foundation that every other control depends on.
SecOps Runbook: Supply Chain Incident Response
A practical runbook for supply chain incidents that turns chaos into ordered phases, with concrete artifacts, decision points, and Safeguard tooling at every step.
Phased Policy Rollout: Warn To Block In Six Weeks
Hard-blocking a new policy on day one breaks builds and trust. A phased rollout from warn to block earns the right to enforce by proving the policy is correct first.
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.
Open Source vs Commercial Security Scanners 2026
When to use Trivy, Grype, and OSV-Scanner versus commercial scanners in 2026: honest tradeoffs, integration realities, and decision criteria.
Continuous Vendor Monitoring vs Annual Review
Annual vendor reviews discover problems eleven months too late. Continuous monitoring closes the gap, but only if your TPRM tooling can ingest and normalize signals at vendor scale.
Discovering Shadow AI Models In Production
Engineers ship models faster than security can track them. Here is how to find shadow AI in production without slowing the teams that build it.
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