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Safeguard articles tagged "software-supply-chain-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

494 articles

Engineering

Securing GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows at Scale

Reusable workflows centralize CI logic — and centralize compromise. Pinning, secrets scoping, org policy, and the review process that keeps one bad merge from owning 400 repos.

Jun 17, 20266 min read
Compliance

ISO 27001/27002 mapping for application security controls

ISO 27001:2022 maps 10+ Annex A controls directly to secure development. Here's how to evidence them, and where SAST-only tools like Veracode fall short.

Jun 17, 20267 min read
Application Security

Breaking free from alert fatigue in AppSec

Veracode-style scanners flood AppSec teams with thousands of unranked alerts. Here's why appsec alert fatigue happens, what it costs, and how reachability-based triage fixes it.

Jun 16, 20268 min read
Industry Analysis

The hidden cost of surface-level code security

Legacy SAST/SCA scanning piles up findings without context, quietly building code security debt whose hidden cost shows up in engineering hours, audits, and breaches.

Jun 16, 20267 min read
AI Security

Slopsquatting: When AI Hallucinates Package Names

LLMs invent plausible package names; attackers register them and wait. How slopsquatting works, why hallucinations repeat predictably, and the gates that stop it.

Jun 14, 20266 min read
AI Security

Securing LangChain and LlamaIndex Applications in Production

Agent frameworks ship fast and patch fast. The CVE history, the dangerous defaults, and a production hardening baseline for LangChain and LlamaIndex apps.

Jun 14, 20266 min read
Buyer's Guides

DAST tool buyer's guide

How Safeguard's unified, defensive-only DAST compares to Black Duck's WhiteHat-derived module on correlation, safety controls, and deployment for regulated teams.

Jun 14, 20268 min read
Buyer's Guides

ASPM platform buyer's guide (Software Risk Manager)

A fact-based comparison of Safeguard and Black Duck's Software Risk Manager for teams evaluating ASPM platforms: architecture, SCA heritage, deployment.

Jun 13, 20268 min read
SBOM & Compliance

What is a Software Bill of Materials workflow (SPDX/SBOM)...

A practical breakdown of SPDX-based SBOM compliance workflows — NTIA rules, EU CRA and FDA deadlines, where Black Duck falls short, and how continuous SBOM generation closes the gap.

Jun 13, 20268 min read
AI Security

How to Audit the Dependencies of an AI Agent

An AI agent's dependency tree spans packages, MCP servers, models, and system prompts. A step-by-step audit method that actually enumerates all four layers.

Jun 12, 20266 min read
Application Security

BSIMM16 report: benchmarking software security program ma...

BSIMM16 shows AI now drives more security program change than any other force, with 111 firms assessed and SBOM use up nearly 30%. Here's what it means — and its blind spots.

Jun 12, 20267 min read
Compliance

Open source license compliance and risk management

How to manage open source license risk beyond point-in-time scans: copyleft traps, MongoDB/Elastic relicensing, and why continuous checks beat Black Duck-style audits.

Jun 12, 20267 min read

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