Industry Analysis
In-depth guides and analysis on industry analysis from the Safeguard engineering team.
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PHP Security Explained
PHP still runs ~74% of the web. From the 2024 PHP-CGI RCE to WordPress plugin flaws, here's what actually breaks PHP apps in production.
Conti Ransomware Supply Chain Patterns
Before Conti splintered in 2022, its affiliates turned MSPs, RMM tools, and identity infrastructure into repeatable supply chain attack paths.
Ruby Security Explained
Ruby security in one place: the 2019 rest-client hijack, CVE-2022-32224's RCE, RubyGems' MFA mandate, and 2025's credential-stealing gem campaign.
Go (Golang) Security Explained
Go's memory safety stops buffer overflows, not logic bugs, typosquatted modules, or CI-pipeline compromise. Here's what actually threatens Go security.
Rust Security Explained
Rust kills most memory-safety bugs, but crates.io supply chain attacks and CVE-2024-24576 prove "written in Rust" isn't a security guarantee.
C/C++ Security Explained
C/C++ still cause ~70% of critical CVEs. From Heartbleed to the xz backdoor, here's why memory bugs persist and how to find exploitable ones fast.
Splunk Supply Chain Detection Content Pack
A practical look at building a Splunk content pack for software supply chain threats, with SPL searches for CI/CD anomalies, package registry abuse, and build provenance violations.
Buy, Build, or Hybrid: Supply Chain Security in 2026
The build-it-yourself era of supply chain security is ending. The full-stack vendor era has not arrived. The right architecture in 2026 is hybrid — and the decisions are different than they look.
NIST NVD Slowdown: What the Vulnerability Enrichment Backlog Means for Security Teams
NIST's National Vulnerability Database nearly stopped enriching CVEs in early 2024, creating a growing backlog that left security teams without the severity scores and metadata they depend on.
KubeCon NA 2025: Supply Chain Security Themes
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025 put supply chain security at the center of the cloud-native conversation. Here is what mattered for platform teams.
Lazarus Group Software Supply Chain Campaigns
A field analyst's look at how North Korea's Lazarus Group has turned software supply chains into a strategic weapon, from 3CX to npm.
The End of CVSS-Only Prioritization
A single static severity score cannot tell you which vulnerability to fix first. Modern prioritization is a function of reachability, exploitability, and business context — and CVSS is only one input.
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