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Safeguard articles tagged "trends" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Nation-State Supply Chain Tradecraft Update
Nation-state supply chain tradecraft has evolved sharply since SolarWinds. We trace the 2025 to 2026 patterns, the operational signatures, and defensive implications.
Open-Source LLM Supply Chain Incidents 2026
Open-source LLM ecosystems hit a turning point in 2026 as supply chain incidents — backdoored fine-tunes, compromised weights, malicious adapter packages — moved from rare to recurring.
Australia Essential Eight 2026: Supply Chain
A senior engineer's view of how Australia's Essential Eight evolved through 2025 and 2026 to incorporate software supply chain expectations alongside the original mitigations.
The Eval Culture Shift in AI Security
Two years ago, AI vendors shipped without evals. In 2026, the posture has shifted. Customers expect benchmarks. Vendors without them lose deals.
EU AI Act Enforcement: Year One Review
The first enforcement window under the EU AI Act has closed. The actual pattern of enforcement looks different from the one vendors and advocacy groups predicted.
Software Supply Chain Security in 2023: Year in Review
From the MOVEit mass exploitation to AI model risks, 2023 proved that supply chain attacks are accelerating in both sophistication and scale. Here's what we learned.
AI-BOM Adoption: State of the Art in 2026
The AI Bill of Materials went from concept paper to procurement requirement in under two years. Here is what the current state of the art actually looks like.
Agent Security: Enterprise Adoption Patterns
Enterprise agent deployments have moved past pilot phase. The security patterns that have survived contact with production look different from the ones the industry was selling a year ago.
MCP Ecosystem Maturation: Where It's Going
The Model Context Protocol went from a single-vendor proposal to a multi-implementation standard in under eighteen months. The security implications are still being worked out in public.
5 Software Supply Chain Security Trends Defining 2026
From AI-generated code risks to regulatory enforcement, these are the supply chain security trends that will shape the year ahead.
Training Data Provenance: The Regulatory Wave
Regulators across three continents are converging on a single demand: show where your training data came from. The engineering implications are larger than most labs have admitted.
The State of Software Supply Chain Attacks: Mid-2022 Report
By mid-2022, supply chain attacks had surged 742% over the previous three years. Here's the data, the trends, and what defenders need to know.
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