compliance
Safeguard articles tagged "compliance" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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CISA KEV Catalog Growth Analysis 2025-2026
A data-grounded analysis of CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog growth through 2025 and 2026, and the operational implications for defenders.
What is a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
An SBOM is a machine-readable inventory of every software component and dependency. Learn what it contains, why it matters, and how Safeguard uses it.
Wealth Management App Third-Party Risk
Wealth management apps inherit risk from every SDK, custodian API, and analytics package they integrate. Here is a working third-party risk program.
CISA Secure-By-Design Pledge Update 2026
A senior engineer's view of where the CISA Secure-By-Design pledge stands in 2026, what signatories actually delivered, and what the second wave of expectations looks like.
EU CRA Self-Assessment Evidence Pack
Build a Cyber Resilience Act self-assessment pack from supply chain evidence. Learn which artifacts CRA expects and how to produce them without rebuilding your stack.
SBOM-Driven Vendor Onboarding: Procurement Blueprint
Procurement that asks for a PDF security questionnaire is buying paperwork. SBOM-driven onboarding turns vendor risk into queryable, comparable, and enforceable data.
Application security assessments: a practical guide
A practical, numbers-based guide to running application security assessments -- scope, cadence, findings, and how Safeguard compares to image-hardening tools like Chainguard.
Cloud Security and Compliance: Where They Overlap and Where They Don't
Passing a compliance audit and actually being secure in the cloud are related but not the same thing — here's where cloud security and compliance genuinely overlap and where treating them as identical creates blind spots.
California SB-327 IoT Security Enforcement Update
A 2026 enforcement update on California SB-327, the IoT security statute that set a national precedent, and what manufacturers and integrators need to know.
How to lower FedRAMP certification costs
FedRAMP authorizations cost $250K-$3M and take 12-18 months. See where that spend actually goes, how Chainguard's hardened images fit in, and how to cut costs.
FedRAMP High: requirements and readiness
What FedRAMP High actually requires: 421 controls, 12-24 month timelines, and how supply chain security vendors like Chainguard and Safeguard measure up.
FedRAMP compliance checklist: steps, requirements, docume...
A concrete FedRAMP compliance checklist: steps, documentation, timelines, and how supply chain evidence like Chainguard images and Safeguard SBOMs fits in.