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How Often Should You Scan for Vulnerabilities?
Finding the right vulnerability scanning frequency for your organization. Too often wastes resources, too rarely leaves gaps. Here is how to calibrate.
Apr 8, 20246 min read
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.
Finding the right vulnerability scanning frequency for your organization. Too often wastes resources, too rarely leaves gaps. Here is how to calibrate.
NestJS dominates the enterprise Node.js space because of its Angular-style decorators, dependency injection, and opinionated project structure. Those same properties create a distinctive security surface worth understanding carefully.
Lambda layers feel like a convenience but they are a supply chain attack surface that most teams do not treat as code. Here is how they get abused and what to do about it.
HashiCorp Vault is a Swiss Army knife for secrets, but most teams use it as a glorified key-value store. A walkthrough of the integration patterns that make Vault actually useful in a CI/CD supply chain.
Azure Functions hide a surprising amount of supply chain risk — Oryx builds, run-from-package, extension bundles, and the way deployment slots interact with identity.
.NET 8 quietly shipped several supply chain improvements worth knowing — NuGet audit, signed packages, SBOM tooling, and better source-link coverage.
Traditional security training is boring and ineffective. Here is how to build a training program developers actually engage with and learn from.
Managed identities are the credential primitive that fixes most supply chain risk in Azure — but only if you use them the way the service actually intends.
Remix's server-first architecture and loader/action primitives make for a distinctive security model. The framework encourages good patterns, but the places where it leaves choices to the developer are where I find the interesting bugs.
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