third-party-risk
Safeguard articles tagged "third-party-risk" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Infosecurity Europe 2026's Cyber Startup Programme: A New Pipeline for Early-Stage Security
Infosecurity Europe debuted a Cyber Startup Programme, a live-pitch Startup Award, and a dedicated Cyber Startups Zone in June 2026. Here is what it actually delivered for early-stage founders working on agentic AI security and software supply chain risk.
OAuth Token Theft: The SaaS-to-SaaS Supply Chain Is the New Soft Target
The Klue and Salesloft Drift breaches showed the same pattern: steal one integration's OAuth tokens, inherit trusted access into hundreds of customer SaaS instances. Here is why third-party app grants are the supply chain risk most teams still aren't governing.
Why postinstall Scripts Became the Frontline of the Software Supply Chain Attack
Install-time script execution turned npm install and pip install into code-execution events. Here is how 2026's wave of attacks works, and the lockfile, allowlist, and sandbox discipline that actually stops it.
Gartner SRM Summit 2026 Recap: Agentic AI Security and the Post-Quantum Clock
Gartner's Security & Risk Management Summit landed on four forces every security leader now has to navigate. Two of them — agentic AI security and the post-quantum world — dominated the room. Here's our honest read on what mattered.
Post-Quantum Cryptography in 2026: Where Enterprise Migration Actually Stands
The NIST standards are final, the deadlines are real, and the harvest-now-decrypt-later clock is running. Here is an honest look at what enterprise PQC migration looks like in 2026 — and why crypto-agility matters more than picking an algorithm.
What OpenAI and Anthropic Ecosystem Partnerships Signal A...
OpenAI and Anthropic's expanding ecosystem deals are an AI model vendor security partnership signal AppSec teams can no longer afford to ignore.
NYC Health + Hospitals Vendor Breach: 1.8 Million Records, Including Biometrics, Exposed (May 2026)
A months-long intrusion through a third-party vendor exposed medical records, government IDs, geolocation, and fingerprint and palm-print biometrics for at least 1.8 million people at the largest U.S. public health system. We unpack the dwell time and the third-party blast radius.
NY DFS 23 NYCRR 500 amendments and third-party software risk in 2026
The November 2023 amendments to NY DFS 23 NYCRR Part 500 tightened third-party service provider requirements and added new obligations around software supply chain risk. Covered entities are now in steady-state implementation.
Writing a Deprecation Policy for Third-Party Components
End-of-life libraries leave codebases only when something forces them out. A written component deprecation policy with triggers, timelines, and CI gates does the forcing on your schedule, not an attacker's.
DORA Compliance for Fintech Engineering Teams
DORA has applied since January 2025. For engineers that means ICT asset inventories, 4-hour incident classification, TLPT, and a register of every software supplier.
PowerSchool Breach: 62M Students, $2.85M Ransom, Cascading Extortion
PowerSchool's December 2024 breach exposed data on roughly 62M students and 9.5M teachers through a compromised support-portal credential and triggered downstream extortion of school districts months later.
RSAC 2026's Five Most Dangerous Attack Techniques: Every One Now Runs on AI
For the first time in the history of the SANS keynote, all five of the most dangerous new attack techniques carry an AI dimension — from AI-generated zero-days to your vendor's vendor's vendor. Here's the honest breakdown, plus what defenders should actually do.
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