sca
Safeguard articles tagged "sca" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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AI Agents and Supply Chain Security FAQ: 2026 Answers
Answers on where AI agents meet software supply chain security — the dependencies agents pull in, hallucinated packages, MCP servers as components, AIBOMs, and how Safeguard keeps the agentic supply chain governed.
Cloud-Native Application Security: Securing the Full Stack in 2026
Cloud-native apps spread risk across code, containers, and infrastructure-as-code. This guide maps the full attack surface and a layered strategy to secure all of it.
Socket.dev Alternatives in 2026: An Honest Buyer's Guide
A balanced comparison of the leading Socket.dev alternatives in 2026 — Snyk, Endor Labs, Mend, Aikido, Sonatype, and Safeguard — with candid pros, cons, and a framework for choosing.
node-fetch Security Guide (2026)
node-fetch brought the browser fetch API to Node.js and became a near-universal HTTP client — and its two real CVEs, a redirect-based header leak and a size-limit bypass, are exactly the kind of subtle bug that ships to millions of apps.
Rust Supply Chain Security: build.rs, Typosquatting, and Auditing crates.io
Rust's borrow checker guarantees memory safety in your code — and nothing about the crates you pull in. A cargo build runs arbitrary code at compile time, before any safe code executes.
Protocol Buffers (protobuf) Security Guide (2026)
Protocol Buffers is the serialization format behind gRPC and much of modern service-to-service traffic — and because parsing untrusted binary is its whole job, its real CVEs are denial-of-service by design, with a critical prototype-pollution bug in the JavaScript runtime.
Wiring dependency and SAST scanning into your JavaScript CLI workflow
npm audit has shipped for free since npm 6 in 2018, yet most JavaScript teams still find out about vulnerable dependencies in a Slack alert, not a failed commit.
Designing an application security program from first principles
Two backdoors nine years apart — event-stream in 2018, XZ Utils in 2024 — show why code-only AppSec programs fail. Here's a four-layer framework built from scratch.
A vendor-neutral framework for software supply chain security tools
Supply chain tooling splits into four distinct categories with different failure modes — the xz-utils backdoor slipped past most of them for over two years.
Dependabot vs. Renovate: Tuning Dependency Updates Without Drowning in PRs
Dependabot GA'd grouped security updates in March 2024 and cross-directory consolidation in February 2026 — both direct responses to teams muting bots entirely.
Enriching SBOMs with Vulnerability and License Metadata
A base SBOM only lists what's in your build — OSV.dev, EPSS, and OpenSSF Scorecard turn that inventory into a prioritized risk decision.
The security case for Node.js's newer runtime features
Node's permission model went stable in v23.5.0, the built-in test runner in v20 — both quietly shrink attack surface, but neither is the sandbox teams assume it is.
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