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Safeguard articles tagged "sca" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Aqua Vulnerability Database (AVD) explained
AVD powers Trivy's scan results, but it's a curated aggregator, not a primary source. Here's how it differs from NVD, where its gaps are, and how to close them.
How to Compare SCA Offerings Before Buying in 2026
A buyer's framework for evaluating SCA products in 2026: what to test, what to ignore in vendor pitches, and how to size the operational cost honestly.
NPM package vulnerabilities: risks and detection
NPM's open, high-velocity ecosystem makes it a top target for supply chain attacks. Here's how vulnerabilities slip past scanners like Trivy undetected.
npm audit vs Snyk: comparing vulnerability scanners
npm audit is free and built-in; Snyk adds reachability analysis and auto-fix PRs. Here's how they really compare on data, false positives, and supply chain attacks.
Frontier LLM Vendors Are Not Your Supply Chain Security Vendor
Coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are excellent tools. They are also not supply chain security platforms, and the assumption that they can replace one is already producing expensive gaps.
Enterprise SCA Platform Buyer Guide 2026
A 2026 buyer guide for enterprise SCA platforms covering language coverage, reachability, policy depth, integration surface, and how the consolidator market is shifting.
Cybersecurity AI: Where It Genuinely Helps Today
A no-hype survey of where cybersecurity AI actually delivers measurable results right now, versus the applications still stuck in the demo stage.
Open Source Dependency Scanners: A Buyer's Checklist
A practical checklist for evaluating an open source dependency scanner — ecosystem coverage, reachability analysis, license detection, and how each handles transitive dependencies.
What is Vulnerability Scanning
Vulnerability scanning automatically checks code, dependencies, and infra against known-flaw databases like the NVD. Here's how it works and why reachability matters.
Solve SCA False Positive Overload With Reachability Analysis
SCA tools produce more findings than any team can review. Reachability analysis is the filter that turns the haystack into a queue your engineers will actually finish.
What is Application Security Testing (AST)
AST spans SAST, DAST, SCA, and IAST — automated techniques for finding exploitable flaws before they ship. Here's how each works and where teams go wrong.
Application Security Controls Explained
A breakdown of what application security controls actually are, which ones matter most for supply chain risk, and how to prioritize them without alert fatigue.