Fourth-Party Risk: The Supply Chain Of Vendors
Your vendors have vendors. Most TPRM programs stop at the third party and miss the fourth-party blast radius. Mapping the full chain is now a board-level expectation.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Your vendors have vendors. Most TPRM programs stop at the third party and miss the fourth-party blast radius. Mapping the full chain is now a board-level expectation.
Mapping a running pod back to a service, repo, owner, and SBOM is the boring infrastructure that makes every other security control useful.
A 2026 review of the best SBOM management platforms, comparing Dependency-Track, Anchore, Kusari, and Safeguard on depth and compliance.
A compromised signing key is the quietest crisis in security. A concrete playbook for responding when your code signing infrastructure is implicated.
IAM Roles Anywhere lets workloads outside AWS assume IAM roles using X.509 certificates. It is also becoming the authentication layer for supply chain tools. Here is what the threat model looks like.
The handoff from incident response to engineering is where remediation goes to die. Here is a blueprint that turns a vague Slack message into a closed loop.
Forking was once a last resort. In 2024 it became a standard response to license changes, governance failures, and stalled projects. A good forking strategy is now an enterprise competency.
How to scope a bug bounty program that addresses supply chain risks: in-scope assets, payout tiers, triage workflow, and avoiding the trap of dependency CVE bounties.
Electronic Health Record platforms carry decades of transitive dependencies. A practical governance model for hospitals, vendors, and compliance officers.
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