Risk Management
In-depth guides and analysis on risk management from the Safeguard engineering team.
16 articles
Quantifying Digital Supply Chain Risk
Security teams struggle to express supply chain risk in business terms. This guide covers frameworks and methods for quantifying dependency risk in ways that boards and executives actually understand.
Where Technical Debt Meets Security Debt
Technical debt and security debt are deeply intertwined. Untangling them requires understanding how shortcuts in code quality create openings for attackers.
Building a Software Vendor Security Scorecard
Not all vendors are equal when it comes to security. Here is how to build a scorecard that objectively evaluates vendor security practices and informs procurement decisions.
Legacy Software and Supply Chain Risks
Legacy systems are supply chain time bombs—running outdated dependencies, unsupported frameworks, and unmaintained libraries. Here's how to manage the risk.
Building a Software Supply Chain Risk Register
A risk register is the backbone of supply chain risk management. Here is a practical template for identifying, scoring, tracking, and mitigating software supply chain risks.
Security Debt: Tracking and Remediation Strategies
Security debt accumulates silently—unpatched dependencies, skipped reviews, deferred upgrades. Here's how to measure it and pay it down systematically.
Software Escrow and Supply Chain Continuity Planning
What happens when a critical vendor disappears? Software escrow arrangements protect your business continuity, but most organizations get the implementation wrong.
The Shared Responsibility Model for Software Supply Chain Security
Cloud providers defined the shared responsibility model for infrastructure. Software supply chains need the same clarity about who is responsible for what.
Software Vendor Risk Scoring Methodology
A practical framework for scoring and ranking software vendor risk based on supply chain security posture, vulnerability history, and development practices.
Single Points of Failure in Software Supply Chains
Your software supply chain has single points of failure that would take down your entire operation. Most organizations have never mapped them.
Building a Supply Chain Risk Appetite Framework
Every organization accepts some supply chain risk. The question is whether that acceptance is deliberate and documented or accidental and invisible.
Vendor Concentration Risk: When Your Entire Stack Depends on One Company
Relying too heavily on a single vendor creates systemic risk that most organizations dramatically underestimate. Here is how to measure and manage it.
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