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Safeguard articles tagged "dependency-management" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

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Engineering

PHP Composer Security: Lockfiles, Packagist and Abandoned Packages

composer.lock is your integrity anchor, Packagist is a single point of trust, and roughly one in ten packages you depend on is quietly unmaintained. A field guide.

Apr 18, 20246 min read
Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-31129: The Day.js ReDoS Vulnerability, Explained

CVE-2022-31129 is a regular expression denial of service in Day.js's custom parse format handling. Here's what triggered it, why it's still showing up in scans, and how it was fixed.

Mar 19, 20245 min read
Vulnerabilities

jQuery 3.5.1 Vulnerabilities: What Was Actually Fixed

jQuery 3.5.1 closed a second cross-site scripting hole in the htmlPrefilter regex that 3.5.0 had only partially patched — here's exactly what changed and why old jQuery bundles still trip scanners.

Mar 14, 20245 min read
Dev Practices

What Are Dependencies in Software?

A plain-English definition of software dependencies, how direct and transitive dependencies differ, and why most projects ship far more third-party code than code their own team wrote.

Mar 14, 20246 min read
Tool Reviews

Endor Labs SCA Review: Reachability Analysis Changes the Game

A review of Endor Labs and its reachability-based approach to software composition analysis, examining how call graph analysis reduces vulnerability noise.

Mar 12, 20246 min read
Case Studies

Netflix's Open-Source Security Approach

How Netflix manages security across hundreds of open-source projects and thousands of internal dependencies while maintaining the velocity that streaming demands.

Jan 22, 20247 min read
Architecture

Monorepo Security: Dependency Management at Scale

Monorepos centralize code but create unique security challenges. Learn how to manage shared dependencies, enforce security policies, and maintain SBOMs across a monorepo architecture.

Dec 3, 20238 min read
Software Supply Chain Security

RubyGems Yanked Gems: Security Risks of Removed Ruby Packages

When a Ruby gem is yanked from RubyGems.org, it creates security risks for projects that depended on it. Understanding the yanking mechanism is critical for Ruby supply chain security.

Nov 5, 20235 min read
Application Security

Spring Boot Security and Dependency Management

Securing Spring Boot applications with dependency management BOMs, vulnerability scanning, and hardened configurations.

Sep 20, 20234 min read
DevSecOps

GitHub Dependabot and the State of Automated Dependency Security

Dependabot has become the default for dependency updates, but its limitations highlight why automated scanning alone isn't enough for supply chain security.

Aug 15, 20235 min read
Open Source Security

The Hidden Risk of Abandoned Open Source Projects

Abandoned open source projects do not disappear. They continue to be installed, depended upon, and deployed in production. They just stop getting security patches.

Aug 8, 20236 min read
Case Studies

Spotify's Dependency Management at Scale

Inside Spotify's approach to managing thousands of dependencies across hundreds of microservices, balancing developer autonomy with supply chain security.

Jun 10, 20237 min read

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