Open Source Software License: A Compliance and Security Guide
An open source software license grants you rights to use code others wrote, with obligations attached. Here is how the types differ and how to stay compliant at scale.
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.
An open source software license grants you rights to use code others wrote, with obligations attached. Here is how the types differ and how to stay compliant at scale.
The CISA Secure Software Development Attestation Form went live in March 2024. Two years and several revisions later, here is what producers actually have to attest, and where the common gotchas are.
Cloud security compliance standards can feel like alphabet soup. This guide maps SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and more to what you actually have to do.
Node.js itself is MIT-licensed, but the real license work is in your node_modules tree. Here is how to audit npm dependency licenses and enforce a compliance policy.
Twenty state comprehensive privacy laws are in force by 2026. Most carry baseline security mandates that security teams - not just privacy lawyers - must operationalize.
BOD 22-01 (KEV) and BOD 23-02 (external attack surface) apply directly to federal civilian agencies, but their downstream contractual cascade into the software supply chain is now the more consequential effect.
The Federal Trade Commission has spent the last several years building a software-security enforcement theory under Section 5. Drizly, SolarWinds, and Henry Schein each contributed pieces of the framework.
SOC 2 audits fail on missing evidence, not bad intentions. Here's what engineering teams must actually build, track, and prove — with real timelines and costs.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 audits now check 8 SDLC controls directly — SBOMs, vulnerability SLAs, and CI/CD evidence dev teams commonly get flagged on.
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