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In-depth guides and analysis on tools from the Safeguard engineering team.
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Best Secrets Detection Tools Compared 2026
Gitleaks, TruffleHog, detect-secrets, and GitHub push protection, tested against a repo seeded with 60 real-format secrets. Verification is the feature that matters.
JFrog Xray vs Prisma Cloud: A 2026 Comparison
Where JFrog Xray and Prisma Cloud actually compete, where they don't, and how to pick between them for software supply chain and runtime security in 2026.
Dependabot Alternatives in 2026: A Buyer Rubric
A buyer rubric for evaluating Dependabot alternatives in 2026, covering update strategy, ecosystem coverage, reachability, and operational realities.
Semgrep Supply Chain: April 2026 Update Reviewed
Semgrep's April 2026 release added dedicated advisory pages, dependency path data in SBOM exports, a Guardian Supply Chain hook, and Maven/Gradle scanning without lockfiles.
Best Open Source SCA Tools in 2026 (Tested on a Real Monorepo)
OSV-Scanner, Trivy, Grype, Dependency-Check, and dep-scan, all run against the same 4,300-dependency monorepo. Recall, false positives, and scan times measured.
cdxgen v12: Reachability Evidence Lands in SBOMs
OWASP's cdxgen v12 ships reachability evidence powered by atom, multi-BOM generation (SBOM, CBOM, SaaSBOM, OBOM, CDXA), and CycloneDX 1.7 as the default. We tested it on a Java monorepo.
Twistlock vs JFrog Xray: A 2026 Comparison
Comparing Prisma Cloud Compute (Twistlock) and JFrog Xray in 2026 across container scanning, runtime protection, policy depth, and where each tool genuinely earns its license.
Sigstore Policy Controller v0.15: TUF Delegation and Admission Posture
Policy Controller v0.15 ships sigstore-go's delegation-aware TUF client, a monthly cadence, and tighter integration with cosign 3.x. We benchmarked admission on a 400-node cluster.
Trivy vs Grype: A Buyer Comparison for 2026
How Trivy 0.58 and Grype 0.85 compare in real-world container scanning: vulnerability coverage, false positive rates, SBOM support, and operational fit.
JFrog Curation 2026: Time-Based Waivers and On-Demand Policies
JFrog Curation shipped time-bound waivers, on-demand policy application, group-based scope, and ChainGuard hardened-Maven support in 2026. We tested the upgrade on an Artifactory estate.
How Syft scans software to generate SBOMs (under-the-hood...
A deep look at Syft's under-the-hood scanning mechanics — catalogers, binary classifiers, layer squashing, and SBOM formats — and where the single-scan model breaks down at fleet scale.
tfsec to Trivy IaC: 2026 Migration Playbook
tfsec has been folded into Trivy for over a year and Aqua has stopped feature work on tfsec. We migrated three platforms in 2026 and documented what actually breaks.
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