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

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Supply Chain Security

Generating CycloneDX and SPDX SBOMs from Java Projects with Maven and Gradle

CISA's 2025 draft update proposes four new fields on top of NTIA's minimum elements, from 7 to 11 — most Maven and Gradle-generated SBOMs still fail that bar.

Jul 12, 20266 min read
Container Security

Minimal container images with ko: evaluating distroless Go builds

ko builds Go containers straight from source onto a shell-less distroless base with no Dockerfile — cutting attack surface, and debugging tools, at once.

Jul 12, 20267 min read
DevSecOps

Securing Playwright E2E Tests in GitHub Actions Without Leaking Secrets

A 2025 supply-chain attack on tj-actions/changed-files hit 23,000+ repos and dumped secrets into public logs — the same CI patterns power most Playwright pipelines.

Jul 12, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Management

Root cause: CVE-2022-40764, the Snyk CLI command injection

A crafted vendor.json field let attackers run shell commands from inside a security scanner — CVE-2022-40764 shows why CLI tools must never build shell strings.

Jul 12, 20266 min read
Buyer's Guides

Best security champions program and developer training pl...

A practical buyer's guide to security champions program tools — evaluation criteria, six real vendors compared honestly, and how to measure whether training actually reduces vulnerabilities.

Jul 12, 20268 min read
Incident Analysis

jQuery CDN supply chain risk analysis

jQuery loads on ~75% of websites, often via CDNs with no SRI or version pinning. The cdnjs RCE and Polyfill.io hijack show why that trust model keeps failing.

Jul 11, 20268 min read
Buyer's Guides

Best attack surface management (ASM) tools

A practical buyer's guide comparing top attack surface management tools and ASM platforms, with honest strengths, limitations, and evaluation criteria.

Jul 11, 20268 min read
Cloud Security

Connecting build, deploy, and runtime security into one AppSec lifecycle

The XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) was found in the build chain; most tools that would have caught it stop at deploy. Here's how to close that gap.

Jul 11, 20267 min read
Container Security

Container-handling security fundamentals: immutability, signing, and privilege drops

Two runc CVEs, five years apart, both turned root-in-container into root-on-host — proof that container isolation needs backup, not blind trust.

Jul 11, 20267 min read
Container Security

Container security: five best practices for provenance, runtime, and network

A single runc bug (CVE-2024-21626) enabled full container escapes in early 2024 — proof that provenance and network defaults matter as much as image scanning.

Jul 11, 20266 min read
Application Security

A hardening checklist for modern Drupal deployments

Drupal 7's 2025 end-of-life left unsupported sites exposed; here's a concrete checklist for module vetting, access control, and patch cadence on Drupal 10/11.

Jul 11, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

Dependency confusion on npm: how public-registry precedence became a delivery channel for post-exploitation frameworks

In May 2022, Snyk found 200+ malicious npm packages, including one that polled for commands until it dropped a Cobalt Strike trojan, and another that delayed 30 minutes to dodge sandboxes.

Jul 11, 20265 min read

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