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Safeguard articles tagged "provenance" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

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SBOM & Compliance

SLSA for Go Releases: A Practical Guide

Go's build model makes SLSA provenance more tractable than most ecosystems. Here is the practical guide for producing and verifying provenance on Go releases.

Feb 26, 20266 min read
SBOM & Compliance

SLSA Build L1 to L3 Migration Playbook

Moving from SLSA Build L1 to L3 is less a single upgrade and more a series of hardening steps. Here is the playbook we use with customers, mapped to the v1.0 specification.

Feb 19, 20267 min read
AI Security

Multi-Modal AI Supply Chain Considerations

Multi-modal models bring image, audio, and video into the AI supply chain. Each modality introduces provenance and integrity challenges that text-only pipelines never had to face.

Feb 18, 20268 min read
Software Supply Chain Security

How to implement software supply chain security with SLSA

A step-by-step guide to implement SLSA supply chain security: map risk, generate signed provenance, and enforce verification before deploy.

Feb 17, 20268 min read
Open Source Security

How to Publish an npm Package With Provenance

A step-by-step tutorial for publishing npm packages with provenance attestations so your consumers can cryptographically verify the build source.

Feb 16, 20266 min read
Software Supply Chain Security

SLSA Level 3 Implementation Blueprint 2026

A practical blueprint for reaching SLSA Level 3 in 2026: hosted builders, provenance generation, verification gates, and the operational habits that hold the line.

Feb 15, 20266 min read
AI Security

AI Model Weights: Signing, Attestation, Provenance

Model weights are binaries with the privilege of code and the review of documents. Here is what signing, attestation, and provenance should actually look like.

Feb 8, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

SLSA v1.0: Software Provenance Attestation Goes Mainstream

The SLSA framework reached v1.0 in April 2023, providing a practical framework for software supply chain integrity that's already being adopted by major package registries.

Feb 3, 20265 min read
Best Practices

Reproducible Builds in the Go Ecosystem

Go's toolchain makes reproducible builds unusually tractable. Here is how to reach bit-for-bit builds across machines in 2023, and where the rough edges remain.

Jan 31, 20265 min read
AI Security

AI Model Weight Tampering Detection Techniques

Weight-level tampering leaves cryptographic and statistical fingerprints. Here is what current research says about detecting a modified checkpoint before it reaches inference.

Jan 29, 20268 min read
Open Source Security

npm Provenance Statements in Practice (2026)

A practical look at npm provenance in 2026: what statements prove, how to publish them from CI, and where they quietly fail when teams treat them as magic.

Jan 22, 20266 min read
DevSecOps

Build Artifact Integrity Verification: From Source to Deployment

If you cannot verify that your deployed artifact matches your reviewed source code, your entire code review process is security theater. Here is how to close that gap.

Jan 14, 20266 min read

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