best-practices
Safeguard articles tagged "best-practices" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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The Complete Guide to Dependency Lifecycle Management
Dependencies are not static. They are born, maintained, deprecated, and abandoned. Here is how to manage the full lifecycle of your software dependencies.
6 free GitHub security settings every maintainer should e...
GitHub Advanced Security costs per committer, but six free GitHub repository security settings — from 2FA to secret scanning — already stop most real-world supply chain attacks.
Container SBOM Generation: Best Practices for 2025
Container images are multi-layered artifacts that challenge SBOM generators. Here is how to generate comprehensive, accurate SBOMs for containerized applications.
Cyber Hygiene: The Everyday Habits That Stop Most Breaches
Cyber hygiene is the routine set of practices that keep systems healthy and hard to compromise. Get the basics right and you close the door on the majority of real-world attacks.
Node.js Security News: Recent Advisories and How to Stay Ahead
Node.js security news moves on a predictable cadence. Here is how to read the advisories, act on the ones that matter, and harden your apps.
SBOM Quality Metrics: Moving Beyond Completeness
Most SBOM quality discussions stop at completeness. Real quality requires measuring accuracy, freshness, depth, and actionability. Here is a practical framework.
Reducing false positives in security scanning
Most security scan findings never warrant action. Here's why scanners over-alert, what it costs teams, how Aikido's consolidation approach compares, and what actually cuts false positives.
What is AI-native SAST vs AI-augmented SAST?
AI SAST isn't one thing. Aikido bolts AI onto a rule-based Semgrep fork; AI-native tools use AI as the detection engine itself. Here's the real difference.
Why EDR and proxy tools won't stop supply chain malware
EDR and network proxies were built to watch endpoints and traffic, not evaluate what a dependency does before it runs — here's why that gap keeps letting supply chain malware through.
SBOMs in 2026: why most organizations generate them but d...
SBOM generation surged ahead of 2026 compliance deadlines, but most SBOMs sit unused after release. Here's why adoption without action still leaves risk unmanaged.
Everybody's shipping code they can't read (AI-generated c...
AI coding assistants ship code fast, but studies show nearly half contains vulnerabilities, hallucinated packages, and leaked secrets nobody reviewed.
How AI pentesting works and where it fits alongside SAST/...
AI pentesting explained: how autonomous agents test live apps, how it differs from SAST/DAST and Aikido's bolt-on approach, and where Safeguard fits in.
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