secure-sdlc
Safeguard articles tagged "secure-sdlc" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
29 articles
Unsecured API Keys: How They Leak and How to Lock Them Down
Unsecured API keys are one of the most common causes of breaches, usually leaking through committed code and misconfigured storage. Here is how they get exposed and how to stop it.
What the Checkmarx Tool Is Used For: A Practical Guide
The Checkmarx tool is a static application security testing platform that scans source code for vulnerabilities before you ship. Here is what it does, where it fits, and its limits.
Supply Chain Risks of AI Coding Assistants
Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code change what enters your codebase and how. A practitioner's map of the real supply chain risks — hallucinated packages, rules-file injection, and unreviewed transitive trust.
SAST vs DAST: A 2026 Buyer's Decision Guide
When SAST beats DAST, when DAST beats SAST, and when you actually need both. A 2026 buyer's decision guide grounded in real program data.
What is a Secure SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
A secure SDLC embeds security into every dev phase, not just the end. Learn the model, frameworks, and pitfalls — with real breach examples.
What is Secure Code Review
Secure code review finds exploitable flaws in source code before they ship. Here's what it actually checks, how it differs from SAST, and when it should happen.
Code Review vs Static Analysis
Code review and static analysis catch different bugs at different gates. Here's how they differ, where each fails, and how to combine them.
Software Development Life Cycle Security: Building Security Into Every SDLC Phase
Software development life cycle security means every phase carries a security activity, not a scan bolted on at the end. Here is what belongs in each stage of the SDLC.
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.
How Secure Code Reviews Catch Bugs Before Attackers Do
Code reviews are one of the cheapest security controls you have, but only if they look for the right things. Here is how to run secure code reviews that actually find vulnerabilities.
What is the OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM)
A concrete breakdown of OWASP SAMM's 5 functions, 15 practices, and 30 streams, how its maturity levels work, and how it compares to BSIMM.
ISO 27001 Annex A Controls That Touch Your Build Pipeline
ISO 27001:2022 has 93 Annex A controls, and about a dozen land squarely on CI/CD. Here's the control-by-control map from clause number to pipeline artifact.
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