Industry Analysis
In-depth guides and analysis on industry analysis from the Safeguard engineering team.
295 articles
FIN7: Financial-Sector Supply Chain Tradecraft
FIN7 has spent a decade evolving from POS malware to supply chain operations. A look at the current tradecraft and the implications for financial-sector defenders.
Telehealth Platform Vendor Risk Program
Telehealth platforms depend on video, EHR, prescription, and payment vendors. Here is a vendor risk program tuned to the realities of the industry.
Grafana Loki for Build Pipeline Logs: Patterns That Scale
Design a Loki-based log pipeline for CI/CD observability and supply chain forensics. Labels, retention, LogQL patterns, and cost discipline from the field.
State of Container Security 2026: Survey Summary
A survey-style summary of container security in 2026: what production teams actually ship, where image security stands, and which runtime controls moved the needle.
Foundation-Neutral Governance Evaluation
CNCF, Linux Foundation, Apache, Eclipse — each has a different governance model. A practical evaluation of what that means for projects considering adoption.
Panther SIEM Supply Chain Rules: A Detection Engineering Playbook
Write Panther Python detections that catch package poisoning, CI token abuse, and registry compromise. Real rule examples, tuning patterns, and alert routing.
Kimsuky Developer Targeting Analysis
Kimsuky has pivoted from diplomats to developers. A look at the tradecraft behind its supply-chain-flavored operations and what engineering orgs should do about it.
Volt Typhoon: Living-Off-the-Land and Supply Chain
The PRC-linked pre-positioning group that scared DHS and the NSA into a public warning, and what it means for supply chain defenders.
Code Signing Key Theft Trend Watch
Code signing key theft has surged across 2025 and 2026. We trace the recurring incident patterns, the operator tradecraft, and the structural defenses that work.
Open Source Foundation Governance Models
The Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, CNCF, and Eclipse each codify different theories of how open source projects should be governed. The differences matter more than most adopters realize.
Pharma Clinical Trials Software Supply Chain
Clinical trial software underpins regulatory submissions worth billions. Here is the supply chain program that protects trial data integrity end-to-end.
State of AI Security in Enterprise 2026
Where enterprise AI security actually stands in 2026: model supply chain risks, agent threats, governance gaps, and the controls that measurably reduce exposure.
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