Regulatory Compliance
In-depth guides and analysis on regulatory compliance from the Safeguard engineering team.
100 articles
PCI DSS 4.0 requirement 6.4.3 for e-commerce third-party ...
PCI DSS 4.0 now mandates strict controls over third-party JavaScript on payment pages. Here's what requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 require and how to comply.
NERC CIP-013 compliance and software supply chain risk ma...
NERC CIP-013 turned vendor risk management into a mandatory grid compliance obligation. Here's what it requires, who it covers, and how to build an audit-ready supply chain plan.
TSA pipeline cybersecurity directive and software supply ...
A breakdown of TSA's pipeline cybersecurity directives and the software supply chain requirements they impose on operators and oil and gas vendors alike.
Analysis of pickle file deserialization vulnerabilities i...
CVE-2025-32434 shows PyTorch's "safe" weights_only loading could still be bypassed for code execution — a pickle deserialization vulnerability with real supply-chain consequences.
Overview of NIST's finalized post-quantum cryptography st...
NIST finalized FIPS 203, 204, and 205 in August 2024, formalizing the first NIST post-quantum standards. Here's what changes for software supply chain security teams.
Building an AI governance framework for enterprise risk m...
A practical breakdown of what an AI governance framework needs to contain in 2026 — from NIST's AI RMF to EU AI Act deadlines — and how to build one that scales with engineering velocity.
License and Regulatory Risk in Open Source Components
Redis, HashiCorp, and Elastic all re-licensed core projects since 2021, and new rules like the EU Cyber Resilience Act now make license and SBOM gaps a regulatory problem.
Insecure Default Configurations in Applications and Frame...
Insecure default configurations caused the 2016 MongoDB ransom wave, the 2018 Tesla Kubernetes breach, and countless audit failures. Here's why defaults stay dangerous and how to fix it.
DHS Software Assurance Guidance: A Review
CISA and DHS's October 2025 software assurance guidance refines federal expectations on SBOMs, attestation, and secure-by-design, and signals what is next.
SQL Injection Prevention in C# with Entity Framework/LINQ
EF Core's LINQ layer parameterizes queries by default, but FromSqlRaw, ExecuteSqlRaw, and dynamic sort columns still open real SQL injection risk in .NET apps.
ISO 27001:2022 Transition Deadline: The Approach
The October 31, 2025 ISO/IEC 27001:2022 transition deadline is weeks away. Here's what auditors will look for in Annex A controls, statements of applicability, and evidence packs.
The HIPAA Security Rule Update and Your Supply Chain
HHS's December 2024 NPRM rewrites the HIPAA Security Rule with explicit software supply chain, SBOM, and business associate controls set to take effect in 2025 and 2026.
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