FAQ
In-depth guides and analysis on faq from the Safeguard engineering team.
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Vulnerability Management FAQ: Process, Tooling, and SLAs
What vulnerability management actually involves — discovery, triage, prioritization, remediation, and verification — answered as a practical FAQ for security and engineering teams.
Air-Gapped Security Deployment: FAQ
How software supply chain security works in fully disconnected environments: offline vulnerability database sync, sealed deployments, customer-held keys, and what changes when there is no internet.
Dependency Management: Frequently Asked Questions
A practical FAQ on managing software dependencies in 2026 — direct vs transitive, lockfiles, semantic versioning, safe updates, dependency confusion, and keeping trees clean.
Griffin AI FAQ: Autonomous Remediation Explained
Everything teams ask about Griffin AI — Safeguard's autonomous remediation engine — including how it fixes vulnerabilities, tests compatibility, and stays safe to trust.
How to Choose an SCA Tool (2026): An Honest FAQ
A practical 2026 FAQ on choosing a software composition analysis tool — the criteria that matter, how the major vendors differ, and how to run a trial on your own repos.
MCP Server Security FAQ: Safeguarding AI Agent Tool Access in 2026
Plain answers about securing the Model Context Protocol — what an MCP server exposes, how agents authenticate, the prompt-injection and tool-poisoning risks, and how Safeguard's MCP server fits in.
Reachability Analysis FAQ: What It Is and Why It Cuts Noise
Reachability analysis decides whether a vulnerable function in a dependency is actually called by your code. Here are the common questions, answered plainly.
Remediation Automation FAQ: Policies, Strategies, and Scaling Fixes
How to operationalize remediation automation — automation strategies, severity policies, SLAs, metrics that matter, and how a small team scales fixes across hundreds of repos.
Shift-Left Security FAQ: 2026 Explained
Common questions about shift-left security answered for 2026 — what it means, why earlier is cheaper, how it works in practice, and how to avoid overwhelming developers.
AIBOM (AI Bill of Materials): Frequently Asked Questions
A practical FAQ on AI bills of materials in 2026 — what an AIBOM captures, how it extends SBOMs to models and datasets, model provenance risks, formats, and governance drivers.
DevSecOps FAQ: Practical Answers for 2026
Straight answers to common DevSecOps questions in 2026 — what it means, how it differs from DevOps, where security fits in CI/CD, and how to avoid slowing developers down.
EU Cyber Resilience Act FAQ: Timelines, SBOMs, and Reporting Duties
A precise FAQ on the EU Cyber Resilience Act in 2026 — what it covers, the phased 2026 and 2027 deadlines, the SBOM requirement, 24-hour vulnerability reporting, risk classes, and penalties.