policy
Safeguard articles tagged "policy" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
16 articles
Ransomware vs. Hospitals: The 2026 Healthcare Surge and the Push to Call It Terrorism
Healthcare ransomware dipped in volume in May 2026 but kept climbing in impact, and a former FBI cyber chief is asking Congress to treat hospital ransomware as terrorism. We weigh the policy debate against what actually protects patients.
Service Mesh for Supply Chain Policy Enforcement
Using Istio, Linkerd, and Cilium service mesh to enforce signed-artifact, SPIFFE identity, and provenance-aware policy in production clusters.
GCP Binary Authorization Enforcement Runbook 2026
A practical 2026 runbook for enforcing GCP Binary Authorization in production, including attestation pipelines, break-glass procedures, and rollout sequencing.
OpenAI Preparedness Framework v2: April 2025 Update
OpenAI released Preparedness Framework v2 on April 15, 2025 with sharper thresholds, an AI self-improvement category, and clearer disclosure requirements. We unpack the operational changes.
EU Cyber Solidarity Act: Regulation 2025/38 in Force
Regulation (EU) 2025/38 entered into force on 4 February 2025, establishing an EU Cybersecurity Reserve, alert system of cross-border hubs, and ENISA-led incident review mechanism.
GCP Binary Authorization Policy Patterns
Policy design patterns for GCP Binary Authorization that hold up in production: attestor topology, exception handling, continuous validation, and the shapes that stop a deploy-time compromise without blocking legitimate rollouts.
Kyverno vs OPA Gatekeeper: A Buyer Comparison for 2026
A practical comparison of Kyverno 1.13 and OPA Gatekeeper 3.18 for Kubernetes policy enforcement, covering language, performance, ecosystem, and operational fit.
Executive Order 14028, Three Years Later: Progress, Gaps, and What Comes Next
Three years after the landmark cybersecurity executive order, SBOM adoption is growing but uneven, secure development attestation is rolling out, and the gap between policy and practice remains wide.
CISA's Secure by Design Pledge: Voluntary Commitments with Real Teeth
CISA launched a voluntary pledge asking software manufacturers to commit to specific security improvements. Over 100 companies signed. Here is what the pledge actually requires and whether it matters.
Software Liability in 2024: The Shift From Caveat Emptor to Vendor Accountability
Governments worldwide are moving to hold software vendors liable for security failures. Here is what the shifting liability landscape means for software producers and consumers.
Kubernetes Admission Controller Policy Patterns in 2026
A field guide to the admission control patterns that survived contact with production clusters: validating webhooks, image policy, mutating defaults, and what to skip.
Safeguard Policy Evaluation Engine
How Safeguard's policy engine evaluates thousands of rules per artifact with predictable latency — the compiler, the cache layer, and the decision trail.
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