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What Is an Artifact Attestation?
An artifact attestation is a signed, machine-readable claim about a software artifact, bound to it by digest. Here's how the in-toto structure works and what kinds of claims it carries.
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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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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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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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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What Is OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)?
OSV is an open, ecosystem-native vulnerability database that expresses affected versions in precise, machine-matchable ranges. Here is how it works and why scanners rely on it.
Jul 3, 20266 min read
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Zero Trust Architecture, Explained
Zero trust replaces the trusted internal network with a model that verifies every request explicitly, regardless of where it comes from. Here's what it actually means and how to move toward it.
Jul 3, 20267 min read
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What Is the Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0)?
The Mozilla Public License 2.0 is a file-level copyleft license that sits between permissive and strong copyleft. Here is how its per-file reciprocity works and what it means for your project.
Jul 3, 20266 min read
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What Is Software Provenance?
Software provenance is the verifiable record of where an artifact came from and how it was built. Here's what a provenance record contains, how it is proven, and why it stops build-time tampering.
Jul 3, 20266 min read
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