DevSecOps
In-depth guides and analysis on devsecops from the Safeguard engineering team.
100 articles
Building AppSec Training Programs That Actually Change Behavior
OWASP's 2021 Top 10 added Insecure Design as its largest category by CWE count, yet most developer training still teaches syntax, not decisions.
The secure SDLC implementation guide: gates for every phase
NIST's SSDF names four practice groups, but most teams bolt security onto one phase. Here's how to gate design, code, build, and release instead.
Building a security-first engineering culture
Only 16.2% of orgs deploy on demand, per DORA's 2025 report. The gap between elite and low performers is culture, not tooling — here's how CISOs close it.
Why developers ignore security tools, and how to fix it
Verizon's 2025 DBIR found only 54% of edge-device vulnerabilities get fully remediated within a year. The gap isn't awareness — it's friction and delay.
DevSecOps best practices for secure builds: an 8-point SDLC framework
Log4Shell (Dec 2021) and the XZ Utils backdoor (Mar 2024) exposed two different SDLC failure modes. An 8-point framework closes both.
Best DevSecOps platforms for shift-left security
A fair, no-hype comparison of DevSecOps platforms — GitLab, GitHub, Snyk, Wiz, JFrog, and Checkmarx — plus what to evaluate for real shift-left security.
Piping security findings into your observability stack
OCSF just cleared ITU review for ratification by June 2026 — here's how to route vulnerability and scan data into Datadog or New Relic without drowning your on-call rotation.
Securing Playwright E2E Tests in GitHub Actions Without Leaking Secrets
A 2025 supply-chain attack on tj-actions/changed-files hit 23,000+ repos and dumped secrets into public logs — the same CI patterns power most Playwright pipelines.
Building security programs with limited headcount
The developer-to-security ratio is roughly 100:1. A framework for scaling AppSec impact through automation and enablement when hiring isn't the answer.
Where Security Gates Belong in Your CI/CD Pipeline
23.8 million secrets leaked on public GitHub in 2024 alone. The fix isn't more scanners — it's putting the right gate at the right stage and tuning out the noise.
Hardening a Java build pipeline in GitHub Actions
23,000+ repos leaked CI secrets when tj-actions/changed-files was hijacked in March 2025. Here's how to pin, OIDC, and sign a Java pipeline against that.
Writing Rego policies for Kubernetes admission control and CI gates
Open Policy Agent graduated CNCF on Jan 29, 2021 — yet most teams still ship Rego with no default-deny, turning a policy gate into a rubber stamp.
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