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

252 articles

Best Practices

A Security Baseline for AI Agent Tool Use in 2026

Tool-using agents are now in production at most large organizations. The security baseline that should be table stakes, and what teams are still missing.

Apr 8, 20266 min read

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Metrics Program For Supply Chain SecOps

Most supply chain SecOps metrics measure activity instead of outcomes. Here is how to design a metrics program that survives leadership scrutiny and changes behavior.

Apr 7, 20266 min read

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Kubernetes Admission Policy For Supply Chain

Admission control is the last cheap chance to refuse a non-compliant workload. The right policies turn supply chain attestations into deploy-time decisions.

Apr 5, 20267 min read

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Inventory Of MCP Servers: Enterprise Program

MCP servers proliferate faster than governance can track them. Build an inventory program that captures every server, tool, and consumer agent.

Apr 4, 20267 min read

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Prioritising CVE Patches With Reachability, Not CVSS Alone

CVSS by itself produces a queue ordered by hypothetical severity. Reachability orders by actual exposure. Mixing the two correctly is where mature programs land.

Apr 4, 20263 min read

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Vendor Incident Coordination In The 72-Hour Window

Most vendor incidents go badly because the first 72 hours are spent figuring out who to call. A pre-built coordination playbook turns chaos into a rehearsed response.

Apr 4, 20267 min read

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Buyer Guide: Software Supply Chain Security 2026

A senior-engineer buyer guide for software supply chain security in 2026: what the categories mean, what to test, and what to ignore in vendor pitches.

Apr 4, 20269 min read

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Oncall Rotation Design For Modern SecOps

Oncall rotations break for SecOps because the work is asynchronous and the alerts are noisy. Here is a rotation design that respects both, with the tooling to back it up.

Apr 3, 20266 min read

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Break-Glass Workflow Design: Audited Bypass That Works

Every policy needs a bypass path or it will be routed around. The trick is making the bypass auditable, time-bound, and rare enough to remain meaningful.

Mar 31, 20267 min read

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Best Secret Scanning Tools 2026 Comparison

A senior-engineer view of secret-scanning tools worth running in 2026: what TruffleHog, Gitleaks, GitGuardian, and platform-native scanners actually do well.

Mar 31, 20269 min read

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