open-source-security
Safeguard articles tagged "open-source-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Security Training Gaps Among Solo Maintainers of High-Imp...
xz-utils, event-stream, and ua-parser-js show how single-maintainer projects lack the security training and support that high-impact infrastructure now demands.
Succession Planning for Open Source Projects: Why It Rare...
Most open source maintainers have no succession plan. That gap has already caused real incidents, from event-stream to XZ Utils, and it explains why.
The XZ Utils Incident as a Case Study in Maintainer Trust...
CVE-2024-3094 shows how a patient social-engineering campaign turned trusted open source maintainership into a near-catastrophic SSH backdoor.
Why Automated Tooling Can't Fully Replace Human Maintaine...
Automated scanners missed the XZ Utils backdoor for years. Here's why CVE scores, SAST tools, and dependency bots can't replace human maintainer judgment.
Measuring Project Health: Bus Factor, Commit Velocity, an...
Bus factor, commit velocity, and maintainer concentration predicted the xz-utils and event-stream incidents before any CVE did. Here's how to read these proxies — and where they mislead.
Open source license management tools: features and best p...
A practical comparison of open source license management tools, contrasting Safeguard and Mend.io on detection, policy enforcement, and SBOM depth.
The Business Case for Consolidating SAST, SCA, and DAST U...
Fragmented SAST, SCA, and DAST tools cost more than three licenses — they cost analyst hours, slower remediation, and longer audits. Here's the real ROI math for consolidation.
Reachability analysis for prioritizing vulnerable depende...
Most flagged CVEs in your dependency tree are never executed. Here's how reachability analysis application security separates exploitable risk from noise—and how Safeguard compares to Mend.io.
Contextual project classification for SCA accuracy
Flat SCA scanning treats every dependency the same, burying real risk under test-path noise. Here's how contextual project classification fixes accuracy — and where Mend.io falls short.
What Is a Package Registry?
A package registry is the network service your package manager pulls code from. Here is how registries work, why they are a critical trust boundary, and how to secure what you download.
The XZ Utils Backdoor: A Timeline and Technical Post-Mortem
A technical post-mortem of CVE-2024-3094, the XZ Utils backdoor: how a trusted maintainer identity was used to plant a supply chain backdoor in sshd.
Automated dependency updates and patch management
How automated dependency updates actually close the patch gap—where Mend.io's approach falls short, and what reachability, provenance, and policy-as-code add.
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