Industry Analysis
In-depth guides and analysis on industry analysis from the Safeguard engineering team.
100 articles
Improper Inventory Management: Shadow and Zombie APIs
Undocumented shadow APIs and forgotten zombie endpoints are quietly expanding attack surface. Here's why inventory gaps cause breaches like T-Mobile and Optus.
Broken Authentication in API Endpoints
Broken authentication in API endpoints drove breaches at T-Mobile, Optus, and Peloton. Here's why it keeps happening and how to catch it before attackers do.
Hidden Functionality and Undocumented API Endpoints
Undocumented API endpoints and hidden functionality sit outside vendor documentation entirely — here's where they come from, why attackers find them first, and how to detect them.
Missing Rate Limiting on APIs and Login Endpoints
Missing rate limiting turned single APIs into 37-million-record breaches at T-Mobile and Optus. Here's why it happens, how attackers exploit it, and how to catch it first.
CORS Misconfiguration Vulnerabilities
CORS misconfiguration vulnerabilities let attackers steal authenticated API data with a single reflected Origin header. Here's how they happen and how to catch them before release.
The emerging role of the AI security engineer
OWASP's 2025 LLM Top 10 ranks prompt injection #1 and calls it structurally unfixable by parameterization — a signal that AppSec skills alone no longer cover the job.
The State of Open Source Security: What a Year of Disclosure Data Shows
454,600+ new malicious packages hit open-source registries in 2025, and NVD still closed the year with a 27,000-CVE enrichment backlog.
Weak Password Recovery Mechanisms
From Sarah Palin's 2008 Yahoo hack to the 2014 iCloud photo leak, weak password recovery flows keep giving attackers account takeover without a password.
Session Persistence Security Risks
CircleCI, Okta, Sourcegraph, and Codecov were all breached the same way: a session token outlived the trust that created it. Here's how session persistence becomes a supply chain risk.
Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass via Privilege Escalation
Attackers increasingly skip cracking MFA altogether — they escalate privileges around it. Real cases from Microsoft, Uber, and SolarWinds show how, and what actually stops it.
Personal Access Token Security Best Practices
Leaked personal access tokens have driven major supply chain breaches. Here's why PATs are risky, real incidents, and how scoping, rotation, and detection fix it.
Hardcoded Secrets in Source Code: Detection and Remediation
Hardcoded secrets in source code caused breaches at Toyota, Uber, and Samsung. Here's why developers keep doing it, how attackers exploit it, and how to fix it.
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