Industry Analysis
In-depth guides and analysis on industry analysis from the Safeguard engineering team.
295 articles
ASPM vs Traditional Vulnerability Management: What Actual...
ASPM doesn't replace your scanners — it correlates their output with runtime reachability and ownership to cut a 10,000-finding backlog down to the handful that actually matter.
Runtime Reachability Analysis: Cutting Through Vulnerabil...
Most CVE findings are noise. Here's how runtime reachability analysis separates exploitable risk from theoretical severity, and why CVSS alone can't prioritize your patch queue.
Benchmarking Mean Time to Remediate Across Company Size a...
MTTR benchmarks vary 2-5x by company size and industry. See how financial services, healthcare, and mid-sized firms compare — and what a realistic 2026 target looks like.
Reading the Tea Leaves of Security Vendor Partner-of-the-...
Vendor Partner-of-the-Year awards dominate cybersecurity conference season. Here's what the criteria really measure — and the supply chain risk they don't.
The CVE Program Funding Crisis: What Happened and What It Means
The CVE program nearly lost its funding in early 2025, exposing deep structural risks in how we track vulnerabilities. Here is what happened and where we go from here.
Are AI Coding Assistant Vendors Ready to Own Their Securi...
AI coding assistants ship indemnification for copyright suits, not for the vulnerabilities they introduce. Here's the liability gap enterprises need to understand.
How Analyst Firms Are Redrawing Category Lines Around ASPM
Gartner, Forrester, and other analyst firms are redrawing the boundaries around ASPM, CNAPP, and traditional AppSec testing — reshaping how security teams buy and organize tools.
Reading Between the Lines of Vendor Research Reports: A M...
Vendor-sponsored security reports shape budgets and policy, but their methodologies rarely survive scrutiny. Here's how to read them critically.
Log4Shell Three Years Later: Which Fixes Actually Stuck?
Three years after Log4Shell's disclosure, which fixes actually held? A look back at CVE-2021-44228's timeline, CVSS/EPSS/KEV context, and lingering exposure.
Reachability Analysis Explained: Function-Level vs Packag...
Package-level reachability flags 60% of CVEs as "reachable." Function-level analysis, tracing real call paths, cuts that to under 10%. Here's the difference.
Exploring vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions workflows
From the tj-actions/changed-files hijack to PyTorch's self-hosted runner breach, real incidents show how GitHub Actions workflows keep getting exploited.
FTC Data Broker Rule Supply Chain Implications in 2026
The FTC finalized substantive data broker rules in late 2025 and enforcement is ramping in 2026. The software supply chain implications are broader than they first appear.
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