Industry Analysis
In-depth guides and analysis on industry analysis from the Safeguard engineering team.
295 articles
Nation-State Supply Chain Tradecraft Update
Nation-state supply chain tradecraft has evolved sharply since SolarWinds. We trace the 2025 to 2026 patterns, the operational signatures, and defensive implications.
Elastic Security Supply Chain Signals
How to surface software supply chain threats in Elastic Security using EQL, detection rules, and the Elastic Common Schema for build pipeline and registry events.
Crypto Exchange Supply Chain Defence 2026
Crypto exchanges remain the highest-value target for supply chain attackers. Here is the 2026 defence playbook that hardens the entire stack.
Insurance Industry Software Supply Chain
Insurers underwrite cyber risk while running on the same fragile dependency graphs as everyone else. A look at the industry's software supply chain blind spots.
TOCTOU (Time-of-check to time-of-use)
TOCTOU flaws let attackers swap a file or resource after it's validated but before it's used, turning a safe check into an exploitable race.
Sumo Logic for Supply Chain Observability: A Practitioner's Guide
Architect Sumo Logic dashboards, queries, and anomaly detection for software supply chain visibility across SCM, CI/CD, registries, and cloud runtime.
Manufacturing OT Supply Chain Security in 2026
Manufacturing has converged IT and OT for a decade, and the supply chain risk has followed. Here is what IEC 62443-aligned vendor management looks like in 2026, with the threats that justify it.
Why Developer Experience Matters to Security Programs
Security programs that ignore developer experience fail. This is not a culture complaint — it is a throughput argument, and the math is unforgiving.
Lateral movement
A precise breakdown of what lateral movement is, the MITRE ATT&CK techniques and pivoting methods attackers use, and how to detect them before they spread.
APT29 Cozy Bear: Supply Chain Tradecraft
How Russia's SVR-linked APT29 quietly industrialized supply chain compromise from SolarWinds to TeamCity and JetBrains tooling.
Insecure deserialization attack
A precise breakdown of what is an insecure deserialization attack, how object injection and gadget chains work in Java and Python, and how to defend against them.
XXE (XML External Entity) attack
A precise breakdown of what an XXE attack is, how XML external entity injection works, a real-world exploit example, the billion laughs attack, and prevention techniques.
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