policy-as-code
Safeguard articles tagged "policy-as-code" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Best Terraform security and compliance tools
A practical, no-hype comparison of Terraform security tools — Checkov, tfsec/Trivy, Terrascan, Sentinel, Snyk IaC, and more — plus how Safeguard fits in.
Catching Terraform Misconfigurations Before They Ever Reach Apply
Trivy replaced tfsec in 2023 and Checkov ships thousands of policies — here's how to wire open-source Terraform scanners into CI/CD before terraform apply runs.
Best policy-as-code enforcement tools
A practical buyer's guide to policy as code tools -- OPA, Kyverno, Sentinel, Checkov, InSpec, and Styra -- with honest strengths, limits, and evaluation criteria.
Best Kubernetes admission control tools
A practical comparison of Kubernetes admission control tools — OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Kubewarden, Styra, jsPolicy, and Polaris — with real strengths, limits, and evaluation criteria.
Azure Bicep IaC security fundamentals: secrets, module trust, and policy gates
A @secure() Bicep parameter still leaks in plaintext the moment it's written to an output — a well-documented gap most teams discover only after a deployment history review.
Automating cloud compliance checks in Terraform and CloudFormation pipelines
Terrascan went fully archived in November 2025. Here's how to gate CIS and SOC 2 checks in Terraform/CloudFormation pipelines with tools still standing.
Scanning Terraform and CloudFormation before you ever run apply
tfsec merged into Trivy in 2024 and OPA hit CNCF graduated status in 2021 — here's how to scan Terraform and CloudFormation before deploy, with a working Conftest policy.
DevSecOps best practices for secure builds: an 8-point SDLC framework
Log4Shell (Dec 2021) and the XZ Utils backdoor (Mar 2024) exposed two different SDLC failure modes. An 8-point framework closes both.
Unified identity, segmentation, and policy-as-code for multi-cloud
38% of breaches start with stolen credentials, per Verizon's 2024 DBIR — the fix for multi-cloud estates is unified identity, segmentation, and policy-as-code, not per-provider IAM.
Developer empowerment in cloud security: a guardrails-first framework
Gartner estimated through 2025 that 99% of cloud breaches would be the customer's fault, not the provider's — guardrails at the point of action are how you fix that.
Why Cloud Security Outcomes Depend on Developers, Not Gatekeepers
Gartner projected 99% of cloud security failures through 2025 would be the customer's fault — the fix is guardrails developers own, not a central team reviewing after the fact.
Secure-by-design principles for cloud architecture: prevention over detection
The 2019 Capital One breach hit 700+ S3 buckets through one SSRF call. Secure-by-design architecture stops that path before it exists.
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