attestation
Safeguard articles tagged "attestation" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
25 articles
Provenance, Attestation, and Signing: A Practical Glossary
Provenance describes how software was built, attestations are signed claims about that process, and signing proves origin. Here's how the pieces fit.
SBOM Drift Detection Playbook for 2026
A practical playbook for detecting and responding to SBOM drift between source, build, and runtime, with the patterns that separate signal from noise.
How to Validate SLSA Provenance in CI
Generate and validate SLSA v1.0 provenance attestations in GitHub Actions using slsa-verifier, gate releases on builder identity, and prove build integrity.
Azure Confidential VM Attestation in a Supply Chain Pipeline
Confidential VMs on Azure protect workloads in use, but the attestation flow is where their value gets unlocked. We trace how to wire it into a build and deploy pipeline.
in-toto Attestation Framework Walkthrough 2026
A working engineer's tour of in-toto in 2026: layouts, links, the attestation predicate ecosystem, and how it composes with SLSA, sigstore, and SBOMs.
GCP Binary Authorization Attestation Verifier: Production Patterns
Binary Authorization in 2026 moved from breakglass-heavy gatekeeping to attestation-driven trust. We unpack how to design verifiers that scale across teams and clusters.
Multi-Arch Image Builds and Attestation Pitfalls
Why multi-architecture container images break assumptions baked into signing, SBOM, and attestation tooling, and how to build a multi-arch pipeline that stays verifiable.
CISA Secure Software Development Attestation: What Vendors Must Know
CISA now requires software vendors selling to the US government to attest to secure development practices. Here's what the form demands and how to prepare.
AI Model Weights: Signing, Attestation, Provenance
Model weights are binaries with the privilege of code and the review of documents. Here is what signing, attestation, and provenance should actually look like.
SLSA v1.0: Software Provenance Attestation Goes Mainstream
The SLSA framework reached v1.0 in April 2023, providing a practical framework for software supply chain integrity that's already being adopted by major package registries.
Safeguard Gold Build Pipeline: How It Works
A walkthrough of the Gold Build pipeline that produces reproducible, attested, policy-verified container images and binaries for Safeguard customers.
Trusted Computing and TPM in the Software Supply Chain
Trusted Platform Modules provide a hardware root of trust for verifying software integrity. Understanding how TPMs fit into supply chain security helps build tamper-resistant systems.
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