supply-chain-security
Safeguard articles tagged "supply-chain-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Best policy-as-code enforcement tools
A practical buyer's guide to policy as code tools -- OPA, Kyverno, Sentinel, Checkov, InSpec, and Styra -- with honest strengths, limits, and evaluation criteria.
Cargo crate vulnerability trends report
RustSec advisories rose 38% year-over-year as crates.io passed 195,000 packages. A breakdown of where Cargo's supply-chain risk is concentrated in 2026.
Best Kubernetes admission control tools
A practical comparison of Kubernetes admission control tools — OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Kubewarden, Styra, jsPolicy, and Polaris — with real strengths, limits, and evaluation criteria.
Malicious Rust crates found on crates.io
Malicious crates keep surfacing on crates.io, from the rustdecimal typosquat to build-script payload attacks. Here's how the pattern works and how to defend against it.
Azure Bicep IaC security fundamentals: secrets, module trust, and policy gates
A @secure() Bicep parameter still leaks in plaintext the moment it's written to an output — a well-documented gap most teams discover only after a deployment history review.
Lessons from the CircleCI 2023 secrets breach
A stolen session cookie bypassed 2FA and let attackers read secrets from live memory. CircleCI's own timeline shows what fast rotation actually requires.
Code injection risks in CLI tools and IDE plugins
A malicious npm dependency hid in event-stream for 8M downloads before detection. Developer tooling is a code-injection blast radius most teams never audit.
npm supply-chain attacks: typosquatting, dependency confusion, and postinstall malware
event-stream hid a wallet-stealing payload behind 8M downloads in 2018. Here's how typosquatting and dependency confusion actually work, and how to stop them.
React and TypeScript security best practices for 2026
A 2025 npm phishing attack hit packages with 2.6 billion weekly downloads. Here's how React and TypeScript teams reduce XSS, API, and dependency risk.
Securing Secrets and Environment Variables in GitHub Actions
A tag-pinned GitHub Action used by 23,000+ repos was rewritten to dump CI memory in March 2025 — here's how OIDC and SHA-pinning would have stopped it.
RustSec advisory database trend report
RustSec crossed 200 advisories by July 2026, revealing a shift from memory bugs to malicious typosquats, unsound "safe" APIs, and abandoned crates.
Typosquatting on crates.io report
Safeguard's research team scanned all of crates.io and flagged 312 likely typosquat candidates — here's what the data shows and how Rust teams should respond.
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