incident-response
Safeguard articles tagged "incident-response" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Best security orchestration, automation and response (SOA...
A practical buyer's guide to SOAR tools -- comparing Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel, Tines, Swimlane, and Torq for automation and incident response.
Incident response playbook for a compromised dependency or CI action
23,000+ repos leaked secrets when tj-actions was hijacked in March 2025. Here's the revoke, rotate, and audit playbook for when it's your turn.
Western Sydney University 2025 Breach: Third-Party Cloud Misconfiguration
From June to September 2025 an attacker quietly accessed a third-party cloud system linked to Western Sydney University and exfiltrated data on 10,000 students. We unpack the supply-chain anatomy.
Anatomy of a Software Supply-Chain Worm: A Post-Mortem Framework
500+ npm packages backdoored in days, then 796 more two months later. A repeatable post-mortem framework for self-propagating open-source worms.
Credential rotation playbook after npm worm exposure
A step-by-step rotation runbook for security teams exposed to the Shai-Hulud npm worm — what to revoke first, how to verify a credential is dead, and how to prevent a repeat.
The npm worm incident response playbook
Shai-Hulud compromised 500+ npm packages by auto-publishing itself with stolen tokens. Here's a concrete detection, rotation, and pinning playbook.
Chaos engineering for security resilience testing
A one-hour Cloudflare R2 outage in March 2025 traced back to a mistyped deploy flag during credential rotation — exactly the failure a security chaos experiment is built to catch first.
High-profile AWS breaches: lessons learned
Capital One's 2019 breach exposed 106 million records through a single SSRF call to the EC2 metadata service — here's the exact control that would have stopped it.
Secrets detection to prevent data breaches
GitGuardian found 12.8 million new secrets exposed on public GitHub in 2023, up 28% year over year — and most of them stayed live for days after leaking.
OWASP A09: Security Logging and Monitoring Failures — A Deep-Dive Guide
Security Logging and Monitoring Failures rank #9 in the OWASP Top 10 (2021). A deep dive into undetected breaches, dwell time, real incidents, and how to fix it.
The Codecov Bash uploader breach
How a Docker image flaw let attackers tamper with Codecov's Bash Uploader for 65 days, exfiltrating CI secrets from HashiCorp, Twilio, and more.
3CX DesktopApp supply chain compromise
How North Korea-linked hackers turned a signed, trusted 3CX VoIP installer into malware — and the double supply chain attack that made it possible.
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