risk-management
Safeguard articles tagged "risk-management" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
31 articles
What is a Security Compliance Framework
A concrete breakdown of what security compliance frameworks are, which ones software companies actually need, and how long certification really takes.
Open Source Risk Management: Beyond Vulnerability Scanning
Vulnerability scanning catches known CVEs. But open source risk goes deeper — license compliance, maintainer health, dependency freshness, and supply chain attacks.
Reading Between the Lines of Vendor Research Reports: A M...
Vendor-sponsored security reports shape budgets and policy, but their methodologies rarely survive scrutiny. Here's how to read them critically.
Vulnerability Prioritization in 2025: EPSS, VEX, and the End of CVSS-Only Triage
CVSS scores alone cannot tell you what to patch first. EPSS exploit prediction and VEX documents are reshaping how mature security teams prioritize vulnerabilities at scale.
Software Supply Chain Security: An Executive Guide for 2025
Software supply chain attacks have surged 742% since 2019. This guide cuts through the noise to explain what executives need to know, what questions to ask, and where to invest.
Lessons from CrowdStrike: Rethinking How We Deploy Software Updates
The CrowdStrike outage wasn't just an EDR problem. It exposed fundamental weaknesses in how the entire industry handles software updates, from kernel drivers to SaaS platforms.
Quantifying Digital Supply Chain Risk
Security teams struggle to express supply chain risk in business terms. This guide covers frameworks and methods for quantifying dependency risk in ways that boards and executives actually understand.
Security KPI Frameworks: Measuring What Matters Without Drowning in Metrics
Most security metrics measure activity, not outcomes. Here is how to build a KPI framework that tells leadership whether the security program is actually reducing risk.
What Is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework?
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is a voluntary set of standards organized around five (now six) functions — here's what it actually is and how organizations use it.
Building a Software Supply Chain Risk Register
A risk register is the backbone of supply chain risk management. Here is a practical template for identifying, scoring, tracking, and mitigating software supply chain risks.
Vulnerability Remediation SLAs: Best Practices for Real Teams
Setting vulnerability remediation deadlines is easy. Actually meeting them is hard. This guide covers practical SLA frameworks that balance security urgency with engineering reality.
Security Debt: Tracking and Remediation Strategies
Security debt accumulates silently—unpatched dependencies, skipped reviews, deferred upgrades. Here's how to measure it and pay it down systematically.