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Best Practices

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

252 articles

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.

Mar 24, 20266 min read

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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.

Mar 24, 20267 min read

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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.

Mar 21, 20268 min read

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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.

Mar 20, 20267 min read

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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.

Mar 20, 20267 min read

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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.

Mar 20, 20267 min read

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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.

Mar 19, 20267 min read

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Best Container Image Scanners 2026

A fact-based review of the best container image scanners in 2026, comparing Trivy, Grype, Snyk, Prisma Cloud, and Safeguard on accuracy and noise.

Mar 19, 20267 min read

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Dev Containers Security Baseline for 2026

A practical security baseline for devcontainer.json files in 2026, covering base image selection, features, lifecycle scripts, and the supply chain controls that actually matter.

Mar 19, 20266 min read

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Continuous Compliance Monitoring: A Practical Guide for Security Teams

How to replace periodic compliance audits with continuous, automated monitoring that catches drift before auditors do.

Mar 18, 20267 min read

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How to Scan Docker Images for Vulnerabilities

A production-grade vulnerability scanning pipeline for Docker images using Trivy and Grype, with reachability-based prioritization and admission enforcement.

Mar 17, 20267 min read

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Automating License Policy: Blocking AGPL At PR

License risk that surfaces at release time is already too late. PR-time license policy turns an open-ended legal review into an automated, predictable check.

Mar 16, 20268 min read