sca
Safeguard articles tagged "sca" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Is Formik on npm Safe? A Security Review
Formik is a widely used React form library. Here is an honest look at its security history, dependency risk, and how to use it safely.
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.
Is the npm express Package Safe? A Security Review
The npm express package is the most widely used Node.js web framework, and it is safe to run today if you stay on a maintained version and watch its small dependencies. Here is the security picture.
How to Choose an Enterprise Vulnerability Management Tool
What an enterprise vulnerability management tool actually needs to do, how it differs from a scanner, and the evaluation criteria that separate a program that scales from one that drowns in noise.
AppSec Vulnerability Management: A Workflow Guide
A step-by-step appsec vulnerability management workflow for teams drowning in scanner output — from intake and triage through prioritization, remediation, and verification.
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.
How to Run a Software Security Assessment
A software security assessment is a structured evaluation of an application's security posture across code, dependencies, configuration, and process. Here is how to run one that produces action, not a PDF.
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.
Snyk on Wikipedia: The Company, History, and What It Does
A factual look at Snyk drawn from its Wikipedia entry and public record: who founded it, where it is based, what it builds, and how it fits into developer security.
PHP 7.3 to 7.4 Version Vulnerabilities: A Security Changelog
PHP 7.4 vulnerabilities span years of unsupported point releases; here is what changed security-wise across the 7.3 and 7.4 lines and why staying on either branch today is a standing risk.
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