Compliance
In-depth guides and analysis on compliance from the Safeguard engineering team.
304 articles
Sonatype Trust Center and Security Program Overview
Sonatype's trust center offers compliance snapshots on request. Safeguard compares that model to continuous, evidence-based supply chain verification.
OSS License Management: A Practical Guide for Engineering Teams
OSS license management is the practice of tracking every open source license in your dependency tree and checking it against policy before it ships. Here is how to do it without slowing developers down.
ISO 27001 and NIST Framework Alignment for Supply Chain V...
How ISO 27001:2022 and NIST's SSDF, SP 800-161, and CSF 2.0 converge on software supply chain vendors—and where CVE-only scanning tools leave compliance gaps.
NIST SSDF PW.4: Reusing Well-Secured Software, Explained
PW.4 is the SSDF practice that governs how you consume third-party and open-source components. Here is what its tasks actually ask for and how to satisfy them with evidence, not policy documents.
License Compliance Debt: The Quiet Risk Growing Alongside...
Open source license debt is compounding as fast as CVE backlogs, but has no CVSS score, no patch, and no dashboard — until an audit, M&A deal, or lawsuit forces the issue.
SOC 2 Type II vs ISO 27001: what each certification actua...
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certify different things to different audiences. Here's what each actually covers, and how to evaluate supply chain vendors like JFrog and Safeguard on it.
Define HIPAA: What the Law Actually Requires of Software Teams
HIPAA gets invoked constantly and understood rarely. Here is a plain-English definition, the rules that matter for engineers, and where software supply chain fits in.
Anatomy of a trust center: what enterprise buyers should ...
A practical checklist for evaluating vendor trust centers—using JFrog as a reference point—covering SOC 2 scope, SBOM provenance, and disclosure SLAs enterprise buyers often miss.
Government access request policies: how vendors handle la...
How JFrog and other software supply chain vendors handle law-enforcement subpoenas, and what Safeguard commits to differently on SBOM and metadata requests.
FTC Safeguards Rule: Enforcement Heats Up in 2026
The FTC finalized 30-day breach notification in 2025 and pursued multi-million-dollar settlements through 2026. Non-bank financial institutions need to take the Rule seriously.
Open source license management tools: features and best p...
A practical comparison of open source license management tools, contrasting Safeguard and Mend.io on detection, policy enforcement, and SBOM depth.
License compatibility when combining open source components
Open source license conflicts like GPL-Apache incompatibility often surface after merge. Here's why scanners miss them and how build-time enforcement closes the gap.
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