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.
A guide to scanning Terraform IaC for misconfigurations before deployment
tfsec folded into Trivy in February 2023. Sentinel gates plans in Terraform Enterprise. Here's how to catch misconfigured infrastructure before it's ever provisioned.
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.
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.
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