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Security

What Is a Product Security Assessment? A Practical Guide

A product security assessment is a structured evaluation of a product's design, code, dependencies, and deployment for exploitable weakness. Here is how to run one that finds real risk.

Feb 18, 20256 min read
Containers

Container Image Vulnerability Scanning in CI

How to wire container image vulnerability scanning into your CI pipeline so builds fail on real risk instead of shipping unscanned images to production.

Feb 18, 20256 min read
Security

Enterprise Vulnerability Assessment: A Practical Playbook

An enterprise vulnerability assessment is a systematic sweep for weaknesses across your whole estate. Here is how to run one that produces action, not a PDF.

Feb 11, 20256 min read
Security

DevSecOps Vendors: How to Evaluate the Security Tool Market

The DevSecOps vendor market is crowded and the category labels overlap. Here is a practical framework for evaluating vendors against what your pipeline actually needs.

Feb 11, 20256 min read
Open Source

Lodash on npm: Prototype Pollution Risks and the Safe Version

The lodash npm package is everywhere, and older versions carry real prototype pollution CVEs. Here are the fixed versions and how to check what your tree resolves to.

Jan 22, 20255 min read
AppSec

Vuln Scan Basics: How Vulnerability Scanning Actually Works

What a vuln scan is, the main scanner types, how to read a report without drowning in noise, and how to fit scanning into a development pipeline.

Jan 21, 20256 min read
Industry Analysis

The Software Composition Analysis Market in 2024: Consolidation and Evolution

The SCA market is maturing fast, with acquisitions, AI-powered analysis, and SBOM mandates reshaping the competitive landscape and what buyers should expect.

Nov 20, 20246 min read
Licensing

The Apache License, Version 2.0: What It Actually Requires

What the Apache License, Version 2.0 actually obligates you to do — attribution, notice files, and the patent grant most summaries skip.

Nov 12, 20245 min read
Concepts

What is a Reachability Analysis in SCA

Reachability analysis checks whether your code actually calls the vulnerable function inside a dependency — the difference between 400 alerts and 12 that matter.

Nov 12, 20246 min read
Product

Reachability Analysis: Cutting Through Vulnerability Noise

Not every vulnerability in your dependencies is exploitable. Safeguard's reachability analysis determines whether vulnerable code paths are actually invoked in your application.

Nov 1, 20246 min read
AppSec

Software Security Testing: A Practitioner's Overview

Software security testing spans static analysis, dynamic testing, dependency scanning, and manual review — a practical map of which method catches what, written for people who actually run these programs.

Sep 30, 20245 min read
Licensing

The MIT License, Meaning in Plain English

The MIT license meaning, stripped of legalese: do almost anything you want with the code, keep the copyright notice, and the author owes you nothing if it breaks.

Aug 30, 20245 min read

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