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DevSecOps

PR-Time Policy Gates Developers Accept

The pull request is the highest-stakes moment in shift-left. A field guide to designing PR policy gates that block bad code without breaking trust.

Apr 4, 20267 min read
DevSecOps

How to Install Ruby on Mac: A Practical, Secure Setup Guide

The right way to install Ruby on a Mac is with a version manager, not the system Ruby. Here is a clean setup for current Ruby and even legacy 2.7 projects.

Apr 4, 20265 min read
Software Supply Chain Security

What is Software Supply Chain Security

SolarWinds, Log4Shell, and XZ Utils show why software supply chain security now spans code, dependencies, and build pipelines alike.

Apr 4, 20267 min read
Software Supply Chain Security

What is a Software Supply Chain Attack

A software supply chain attack compromises trusted dependencies or build systems to spread malicious code downstream — here's how it works, and how to stop it.

Apr 4, 20267 min read
Application Security

Attack Surface Management (ASM): best practices guide

A practical attack surface management best practices guide for software supply chains, covering SBOMs, base image hardening, CI/CD exposure, and a 90-day rollout plan.

Apr 4, 20268 min read
Security

How to Build Effective Remediation Steps for Security Vulnerabilities

Good remediation steps turn a scanner alert into a fix that actually ships. Here is how to structure, prioritize, and verify them.

Apr 3, 20267 min read
Security

Can a Code Corrector Actually Make Your Python Safer?

A code corrector fixes style and syntax, but it rarely catches the security bugs that matter. Here is where a Python code corrector helps, where it fails, and what to run alongside it.

Apr 3, 20267 min read
Software Supply Chain Security

Managing risk in the software supply chain

Chainguard hardens base images, but that's one slice of supply chain risk. Here's what SolarWinds, Log4Shell, and XZ Utils reveal about the gaps — and how to close them.

Apr 3, 20268 min read
DevSecOps

Security automation: stop chasing vulnerabilities, start ...

Chasing CVEs doesn't scale — 40,000+ vulnerabilities were logged in 2024 alone. Here's why prevention-first automation beats patch-cycle chasing, and how it differs from Chainguard's approach.

Apr 3, 20267 min read
Security

What Is a Security Development Model and How Do You Run One?

A security development model bakes threat modeling, code review, and testing into every stage of the SDLC instead of bolting security on at the end. Here is how the model works in practice.

Apr 2, 20266 min read
DevSecOps

Integrating Security Into the DevSecOps Toolchain

Integrating security into the DevSecOps toolchain works when scanning is wired into the tools engineers already use, not bolted on as a separate gate at the end.

Apr 2, 20265 min read
Open Source Security

Types of Open Source Licenses

A breakdown of permissive, copyleft, and source-available license types—MIT, GPL, AGPL, SSPL—and why misclassified licenses create hidden supply chain risk.

Apr 2, 20267 min read

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