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What is a Vulnerability Disclosure Program
What a vulnerability disclosure program actually is, how it differs from a bug bounty, and what CISA, ISO, and the EU CRA now require of it.
Feb 6, 20267 min read
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FAQ: CycloneDX vs SPDX — Which to Use?
Practical answers to the most common CycloneDX vs SPDX questions: differences, tooling, regulatory preference, VEX support, and when to emit both.
Feb 4, 20266 min read
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Designing a Vulnerability Triage Workflow That Works
Most vulnerability triage processes are broken. Here is how to design a workflow that reduces noise, routes issues to the right owners, and actually gets things fixed.
Feb 4, 20266 min read
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Electron App Supply Chain Security Posture
Electron apps ship Chromium, Node.js, and your entire npm tree to a user's desktop, running with the privileges of the logged-in user. The supply chain implications are severe enough that they deserve their own category of threat model.
Feb 3, 20267 min read
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Dependabot Security Update Policies for 2026
A pragmatic guide to configuring Dependabot for security updates: which knobs matter, which defaults are wrong, and how to avoid drowning teams in PRs.
Feb 3, 20266 min read
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What is a Trust Boundary
A trust boundary is where data crosses into a higher-privilege context and must be verified. Learn where they hide and how breaches like Log4Shell exploited them.
Feb 3, 20266 min read
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Measuring AppSec Program Effectiveness in 2026
The metrics that actually distinguish high-functioning application security programs from theater, with concrete formulas and reporting cadences for 2026.
Feb 2, 20266 min read
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Security Champions With a Supply Chain Focus
Designing and running a security champions program specifically for supply chain risks, including recruitment, training, cadences, and measurable impact.
Feb 2, 20266 min read
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Reproducible Builds in the Go Ecosystem
Go's toolchain makes reproducible builds unusually tractable. Here is how to reach bit-for-bit builds across machines in 2023, and where the rough edges remain.
Jan 31, 20265 min read
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