architecture
Safeguard articles tagged "architecture" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
13 articles
Multi-Tenant Isolation for FedRAMP HIGH
How Safeguard achieves hard multi-tenant isolation in a platform that meets FedRAMP HIGH — the boundaries, the proofs, and the trade-offs we accepted.
Safeguard Policy Evaluation Engine
How Safeguard's policy engine evaluates thousands of rules per artifact with predictable latency — the compiler, the cache layer, and the decision trail.
SBOM Ingestion at Scale: An Architecture Guide
A pragmatic architecture for ingesting, normalizing, and querying hundreds of thousands of SBOMs across an enterprise or agency, without drowning in noise.
Griffin Agent Loop: Design Decisions
The design rationale behind Griffin, Safeguard's triage agent — how the loop is structured, why we bounded reasoning depth, and how tool calls stay auditable.
Safeguard Knowledge Graph Architecture
How Safeguard's knowledge graph unifies components, vulnerabilities, policies, and runtime evidence into a single queryable substrate that powers every product surface.
Inside Safeguard's Reachability Engine
A deep look at how Safeguard's reachability engine combines call graph construction, symbolic analysis, and runtime evidence to reduce vulnerability noise by an order of magnitude.
Security Data Lake Architecture for Supply Chain Intelligence
A security data lake aggregates SBOMs, vulnerability data, build provenance, and runtime signals into a queryable store. This architecture enables the cross-cutting analysis that siloed tools cannot provide.
Monolith to Microservices: Supply Chain Changes
What really happens to your software supply chain when you decompose a monolith into services, and how to avoid trading one risk for forty new ones.
Dependency Firewalls: Concept, Architecture, and Implementation
A dependency firewall sits between your build system and public registries, filtering packages based on security policies. Here is how to design and implement one.
Security Considerations When Migrating from Monolith to Microservices
Decomposing a monolith into microservices changes the attack surface fundamentally. The security model that worked for the monolith will not work for the distributed system.
Zero Trust Architecture for the Software Supply Chain
Zero trust isn't just for networks. Applying zero trust principles to your software supply chain fundamentally changes how you manage dependency risk.
Microservices Security Architecture: A Supply Chain Perspective
Microservices multiply your dependency surface. This guide covers service mesh security, inter-service authentication, and dependency management across distributed architectures.