Industry Analysis
In-depth guides and analysis on industry analysis from the Safeguard engineering team.
295 articles
State of Software Supply Chain Security 2026
A senior-engineer view of where software supply chain security stands in 2026: what's changed, what's stuck, and where budgets, regulations, and attacker tactics converge.
Prototype pollution vulnerabilities in Node.js and NestJS...
How prototype pollution reaches NestJS apps through lodash, qs, tough-cookie, and dotenv-expand — and how Safeguard catches it before it merges.
State of Open Source Security Report Overview
Open source vulnerabilities tripled in six years, but 70-85% aren't even reachable. A data-driven look at the real state of open source security in 2026.
State of Cloud Security Report Overview
This year's cloud security reports point to the same conclusion: detection isn't the bottleneck anymore — identity sprawl, supply chain risk, and slow remediation are.
State of Agentic AI Adoption Report Overview
Safeguard's State of Agentic AI Adoption Report finds 71% of enterprises now run agents with production access, outpacing identity, SBOM, and reachability controls.
Inside the Agentic Development Supply Chain Report
Safeguard's research team analyzed 42,000+ repositories with agentic commit activity, finding new dependency, MCP server, and SBOM gaps introduced by AI coding agents.
AI Agent Security: 6 Risks Beyond Traditional Controls
Gartner projects a third of enterprise apps will run agentic AI by 2028. Here are six AI agent security risks traditional controls miss.
The Hidden Cost of AI Code in Financial Services
Banks and fintechs are shipping AI-generated code faster than they can vet it. The bill for that speed is starting to come due.
Why Scanning Alone Doesn't Work Anymore
Scanners generate findings. Programs produce outcomes. After a decade of dashboards and CVE counts, it is time to admit the gap between the two is the actual security problem.
Executive Guide to Operationalizing AI Governance
A 2026 look at why AI governance policies keep failing in practice—and the five-pillar operating model executives are using to fix it.
A Tale of Two Scanners: Siloed Scanning vs AI-Powered Correlation
Siloed scanners flood teams with disconnected alerts. Here's why AI powered vulnerability correlation is becoming the industry's answer to alert fatigue.
Agent Security Buyer's Guide Overview
As AI agents gain production write-access across the enterprise, security teams need a rigorous buyer's guide to separate real agent security platforms from repackaged AppSec dashboards.
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