Best Practices
In-depth guides and analysis on best practices from the Safeguard engineering team.
252 articles
Purple Team Exercises With Supply Chain Focus
Most purple team exercises stop at the perimeter. A supply-chain-focused exercise probes the dependency graph, the build pipeline, and the trust assumptions in your SBOM.
Incident Response for Supply Chain Attacks: A 2026 Playbook
A practical incident response playbook tailored for supply chain compromises — from initial detection through containment, eradication, and lessons learned.
Runtime Drift Detection For Supply Chain Controls
An admitted workload is not a static one. Runtime drift detection turns the SBOM into a living contract and surfaces supply chain changes before they become incidents.
Flowing Down CMMC And CRA Clauses To Vendors
CMMC 2.0 and the EU Cyber Resilience Act both require obligations to flow down through your supply chain. Here is how to write the clauses and verify the compliance.
Unifying Software And AI Assets In One Graph
Two parallel inventories for software and AI assets do not survive contact with reality. A unified graph is what makes governance feasible.
Tabletop Exercise: Software Supply Chain Incident
A facilitator's guide to running a supply chain incident tabletop that produces decisions, not theater, with concrete injects and evidence-driven debrief.
How to Secure AI Agents on the MCP Protocol
MCP gives AI agents real tools, real credentials, and real blast radius. Here is a hardening guide for running MCP servers in production without torching your environment.
One Policy Set, Four Enforcement Points
Different gates with different rules create gaps and developer friction. A unified policy engine evaluates one definition at PR, build, admission, and runtime.
Asset Discovery For M&A Due Diligence
M&A due diligence runs on questionnaires that nobody can verify. Continuous asset discovery turns the diligence period into a data exercise.
Evaluating Vendor Attestations: SOC 2 / FedRAMP
A SOC 2 report does not mean the vendor is secure. Here is how to read attestations carefully, what FedRAMP actually proves, and how to ingest both at scale.
How to Implement SLSA Level 3 Practically
SLSA Level 3 requires hardened builds, verifiable provenance, and isolated build environments. Here is the practical path, not the theoretical one.
SecOps Tool Consolidation Program Blueprint
Tool sprawl is the slow-motion failure mode of every SecOps program. Here is a blueprint for consolidating tools without losing coverage and without political damage.
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