DevSecOps
In-depth guides and analysis on devsecops from the Safeguard engineering team.
378 articles
The Secure Code Review Checklist Every Team Should Use
A practical secure code review checklist for 2026 — what to look for in auth, input handling, secrets, dependencies, and business logic, plus how to scale review with automation and AI.
Vulnerability Prioritization: How to Triage What Actually Matters
CVSS alone is a poor priority signal. A 2026 guide to prioritizing vulnerabilities with EPSS, CISA KEV, SSVC, and reachability — so you fix the few that are exploitable, not the thousands that aren't.
Building a Vulnerability Management Program That Developers Don't Hate
Most vulnerability management programs fail not because they miss bugs, but because they drown teams in unprioritized findings. Here is a phased, developer-friendly way to build one that actually reduces risk.
GitHub Actions Security Hardening: A Practical Checklist
GitHub Actions runs arbitrary code with access to your secrets and repos. A hands-on hardening guide — SHA pinning, least-privilege GITHUB_TOKEN, OIDC, and runner protection — with copy-paste YAML.
GitLab CI Security Best Practices for 2026
GitLab CI hands every job a CI_JOB_TOKEN, a runner, and your variables. This guide covers the real attack surface — remote includes, token scope, privileged runners — with hardened .gitlab-ci.yml examples, OIDC, and scanning.
Security Gates in CI/CD: How to Block Risk Without Blocking Delivery
A security gate that fails every build gets disabled by Friday. Here is how to design CI/CD security gates that stop real risk, stay fast, and keep developers on your side.
CI/CD Pipeline Security Best Practices for 2026
Your build pipeline is production-adjacent infrastructure with credentials to everything. Here are the CI/CD security practices — mapped to the OWASP Top 10 CI/CD risks — that actually close the gaps attackers use.
ASPM vs CNAPP: Which Security Platform Does Your Team Actually Need?
ASPM governs risk in the code and pipeline; CNAPP protects the cloud runtime. They overlap but solve different problems. Here is a clear comparison and how to decide which one to invest in first.
DevSecOps Best Practices: A 2026 Implementation Guide
A practical, opinionated guide to the DevSecOps practices that actually reduce risk in 2026 — from shifting left correctly to policy gates, reachability, and measurable ownership.
GitHub Actions Supply Chain Security: A 2026 Hardening Guide
GitHub Actions runs with your secrets and write access to your repo. This guide maps the real attack surface — from the tj-actions compromise to script injection — and gives you copy-paste hardening, OIDC, and scanning.
SAST vs DAST vs SCA: The Three Pillars of AppSec Explained
SAST reads your code, DAST attacks your running app, and SCA inspects your dependencies. Here is how the three application security testing methods differ, where each wins, and how to combine them.
DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline security
CI/CD pipelines are now a prime attack surface. Here's what Checkmarx's SAST-first approach misses, and how Safeguard secures the full pipeline.