secops
Safeguard articles tagged "secops" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
30 articles
True Positives vs False Positives in Cyber Security
A true positive is a real finding your tools caught correctly; a false positive is noise that looks like a finding but isn't — and the ratio between them decides whether your security program gets trusted or ignored.
How to Fix Vulnerabilities: A Practical Workflow
A practical, repeatable workflow for how to fix vulnerabilities once a scanner finds them — triage, verify, patch, and confirm — instead of treating every finding as equally urgent.
Types of Vulnerability Assessment, Explained
Not every vulnerability assessment tests the same thing. Here's how network, application, host, and wireless assessments differ, and when each one is the right call.
Software Security Issues: A Triage Framework
Most teams triage software security issues by severity score alone, which routinely gets the priority order wrong. A better framework weighs reachability and exposure too.
Tools in Cyber Security: A Starter Map by Category
The tools in cyber security span network defense, application security, identity, and data protection, and the fastest way to get oriented is a map by category rather than a vendor list.
What Is a Vulnerability Scan? How It Works and What It Finds
A vulnerability scan automatically checks code, dependencies, and running systems against known weaknesses — here's what it actually inspects and where it stops short of a full assessment.