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Best Practices

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

252 articles

Fourth-Party Risk: The Supply Chain Of Vendors

Your vendors have vendors. Most TPRM programs stop at the third party and miss the fourth-party blast radius. Mapping the full chain is now a board-level expectation.

Mar 15, 20267 min read

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Runtime Asset Attribution: Pods To Services

Mapping a running pod back to a service, repo, owner, and SBOM is the boring infrastructure that makes every other security control useful.

Mar 15, 20267 min read

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Best SBOM Management Platforms 2026 Review

A 2026 review of the best SBOM management platforms, comparing Dependency-Track, Anchore, Kusari, and Safeguard on depth and compliance.

Mar 15, 20267 min read

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IR Handoff From SecOps To Engineering

The handoff from incident response to engineering is where remediation goes to die. Here is a blueprint that turns a vague Slack message into a closed loop.

Mar 14, 20267 min read

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How to Prevent Dependency Confusion in npm (2026)

Dependency confusion attacks are still landing in 2026 because scoped packages, registry config, and provenance checks are misconfigured by default. Here is the fix.

Mar 13, 20267 min read

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Best SCA Tools for Enterprise: 2026 Comparison

A fact-based 2026 review of the best Software Composition Analysis tools for enterprise teams, covering depth, reachability, remediation, and compliance.

Mar 12, 20268 min read

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Automating Third-Party Risk Assessment: Moving Beyond Spreadsheets and Questionnaires

Why manual vendor risk assessments are failing, and how automation is reshaping third-party risk management for software supply chains.

Mar 12, 20267 min read

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Signed Artifact Policy Enforcement In 2026

Signing artifacts is necessary but not sufficient. The policy that verifies signatures, attestations, and trust roots is what turns signing into a security control.

Mar 11, 20268 min read

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Asset Discovery As CMDB Replacement In 2026

The traditional CMDB cannot keep up with cloud, AI, and agent workloads. Continuous discovery is the only model that survives 2026.

Mar 10, 20267 min read

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Vendor SBOM Ingest Program Blueprint

Asking vendors for SBOMs is easy. Building a program that actually does something with them is harder. Here is a working blueprint that scales past a hundred vendors.

Mar 10, 20267 min read

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How to Sign Container Images with Cosign in Production

Keyless Cosign signing with Fulcio and Rekor is the 2026 default. Here is the production workflow, policy configuration, and the failure modes nobody warns you about.

Mar 10, 20267 min read

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How to Rotate Leaked Secrets With Automation (2026)

The 2026 playbook for automated secret rotation: detection pipelines, credential broker patterns, blast-radius analysis, and CI integration that actually holds up in production.

Mar 10, 20268 min read