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Safeguard articles tagged "compliance" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Best Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security scanning tools
A practical, no-hype comparison of IaC security scanning tools — Checkov, tfsec/Trivy, Terrascan, Snyk IaC, KICS, and cfn-guard — with real strengths and limitations.
Best cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools
A practical buyer's guide to CSPM tools: evaluation criteria that matter, a fair comparison of six leading vendors, and where supply chain security fits in.
Overreliance on LLM Outputs: A Security Perspective
LLMs hallucinate packages, vulnerability verdicts, and compliance summaries with total confidence. Here's where overreliance on AI outputs creates real security risk—and how to close the gap.
Best continuous compliance monitoring platforms
A practical, no-hype comparison of continuous compliance monitoring platforms for SOC 2 and audit readiness, plus where dedicated tools fall short.
Best SBOM validation and diffing tools
A practical buyer's guide to SBOM validation tools -- covering schema checks, quality scoring, and diffing -- with an honest look at six real tools and their tradeoffs.
CRA Open Source Software Stewards: Article 24's Light-Touch Regime
The CRA's open-source software steward concept under Article 24 creates a distinct, lighter set of obligations for foundations and non-profits supporting commercial OSS.
ISO 27001:2022 Transition Deadline: The Approach
The October 31, 2025 ISO/IEC 27001:2022 transition deadline is weeks away. Here's what auditors will look for in Annex A controls, statements of applicability, and evidence packs.
NIST SP 800-53 Release 5.2.0: Three New Controls You Cannot Ignore
NIST released SP 800-53 5.2.0 on August 27, 2025 with three new controls focused on patch root-cause analysis, structured logging, and cyber resiliency. Here is what it means for compliance teams.
CISA's Software Identification Ecosystem: What You Need to Know
CISA is building a comprehensive software identification ecosystem that ties SBOMs, vulnerabilities, and procurement together. Here is what it means for software producers and consumers.
GPAI Code of Practice: The 2025 Signatory Landscape
The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice was published on 10 July 2025 with three chapters. Most major providers signed, with notable partial signatures from xAI.
How Snyk IaC's 400+ rule library maps to CIS benchmarks a...
How Snyk IaC's 400+ rules trace to numbered CIS AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes benchmark controls — and where benchmark-mapped scanning stops short.
How Snyk's open-source license compliance engine classifi...
How Snyk's license compliance engine groups open-source licenses and maps them to low, medium, high, and critical severity levels.