SecOps
In-depth guides and analysis on secops from the Safeguard engineering team.
21 articles
False Positives in Cyber Security: Why They Happen and How to Cut Them
A scanner that cries wolf gets ignored. Here's why false positives pile up in security tooling and the concrete changes that actually reduce them.
Vulnerability Assessment Services: What's Actually Included
Vulnerability assessment services bundle scanning, triage, and remediation tracking — but the scope varies widely between vendors, and knowing what's actually included changes what you should pay.
Vulnerability Scanner Software: Categories and How to Choose
Network scanners, DAST, SCA, SAST, container and cloud scanners all claim the same job. Here is what each category actually finds and how to assemble coverage without buying six consoles.
True Positives vs False Positives in Cyber Security
A true positive is a real finding your tools caught correctly; a false positive is noise that looks like a finding but isn't — and the ratio between them decides whether your security program gets trusted or ignored.
How to Fix Vulnerabilities: A Practical Workflow
A practical, repeatable workflow for how to fix vulnerabilities once a scanner finds them — triage, verify, patch, and confirm — instead of treating every finding as equally urgent.
Types of Vulnerability Assessment, Explained
Not every vulnerability assessment tests the same thing. Here's how network, application, host, and wireless assessments differ, and when each one is the right call.
Software Security Issues: A Triage Framework
Most teams triage software security issues by severity score alone, which routinely gets the priority order wrong. A better framework weighs reachability and exposure too.
Tools in Cyber Security: A Starter Map by Category
The tools in cyber security span network defense, application security, identity, and data protection, and the fastest way to get oriented is a map by category rather than a vendor list.
What Is a Vulnerability Scan? How It Works and What It Finds
A vulnerability scan automatically checks code, dependencies, and running systems against known weaknesses — here's what it actually inspects and where it stops short of a full assessment.