Best Practices
In-depth guides and analysis on best practices from the Safeguard engineering team.
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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.
Security Team Topology for a Supply Chain Program
How to structure a supply chain security program across AppSec, platform, TPRM, and incident response with clear ownership, cadences, and escalation paths.
Migrating VPN to Zero Trust: Supply Chain
A phased playbook for retiring corporate VPN concentrators in favor of zero trust network access, with specific guidance for protecting software supply chain pipelines.
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.
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.
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.
Code Signing Infrastructure Breach Response
A compromised signing key is the quietest crisis in security. A concrete playbook for responding when your code signing infrastructure is implicated.
AWS IAM Roles Anywhere and the Supply Chain
IAM Roles Anywhere lets workloads outside AWS assume IAM roles using X.509 certificates. It is also becoming the authentication layer for supply chain tools. Here is what the threat model looks like.
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.
Forking Strategy for Enterprise OSS
Forking was once a last resort. In 2024 it became a standard response to license changes, governance failures, and stalled projects. A good forking strategy is now an enterprise competency.
Scoping a Vulnerability Bounty Program for Supply Chain
How to scope a bug bounty program that addresses supply chain risks: in-scope assets, payout tiers, triage workflow, and avoiding the trap of dependency CVE bounties.
EHR System Dependency Governance
Electronic Health Record platforms carry decades of transitive dependencies. A practical governance model for hospitals, vendors, and compliance officers.
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