FAQ
In-depth guides and analysis on faq from the Safeguard engineering team.
50 articles
AI Coding Assistant Security FAQ: Risks and Controls for 2026
Straight answers on securing AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline — the real risks, data-leakage paths, insecure output, and how to add guardrails without slowing developers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Snyk Alternatives (2026): An Honest FAQ
A fair 2026 FAQ on Snyk alternatives — why teams look, how Black Duck, Mend, Sonatype, Socket, Trivy, and Safeguard compare, and how to migrate without regret.
Safeguard's $1 Starter Plan: FAQ on What You Get for a Dollar
Everything about Safeguard's $1 Starter plan — what one dollar connects, what's included, what's not, and when to upgrade to autonomous remediation and compliance packs.
How Safeguard Works: FAQ on the Scan-to-Fix Workflow
A step-by-step FAQ on how Safeguard works under the hood — from dependency discovery and reachability analysis to autonomous fix pull requests and policy gates.
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