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The Security Design Review: A Practical Guide

A security design review examines a system's architecture before it is built to find flaws that no code scanner can catch. Here's how to run one that finds real problems while they are still cheap to fix.

Jul 5, 20267 min read
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What Is a CVSS Score

A CVSS score rates how severe a security flaw is on a scale of 0 to 10. Here is what the number means, how to read it, and why it is only part of the risk picture.

Jul 5, 20266 min read
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What Is Shift-Left Security? A Plain-English Explanation

Shift-left security means moving security checks earlier in development — into the IDE, the commit, and the pull request — so flaws are caught while they're cheap to fix. Here's what it actually means and how to do it without slowing teams down.

Jul 5, 20267 min read
Concepts

What Is Sigstore?

Sigstore is an open-source project for signing and verifying software without managing long-lived keys. Here's how Cosign, Fulcio, and Rekor make keyless signing work.

Jul 5, 20266 min read
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What Is the LGPL License? Linking and Weak Copyleft

The GNU Lesser GPL is a weak-copyleft license designed for libraries. It lets proprietary software link to LGPL code without becoming GPL. Here is how the linking rules actually work.

Jul 5, 20266 min read
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Introduction to Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability scanning is how teams find known weaknesses before attackers do. This guide explains what a scanner actually does, the main types, how a scan works end to end, and how to turn a wall of findings into a short list of things worth fixing.

Jul 4, 20266 min read
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Secure Defaults, Explained

Secure defaults mean the out-of-the-box configuration is the safe one, and weakening it requires a deliberate opt-in. Here's why the default state decides most real-world security outcomes.

Jul 4, 20267 min read
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Symmetric vs Asymmetric Encryption: What's the Difference?

Symmetric encryption uses one shared key for both locking and unlocking. Asymmetric encryption uses a key pair, one public and one private. One is fast; the other solves the key-sharing problem.

Jul 4, 20266 min read
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What Is a Security Patch

A security patch is a small update that fixes a specific flaw in software. Here is what patches are, why applying them quickly matters, and how teams manage them.

Jul 4, 20266 min read
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